Physics and Intuition

One common criticism of modern Physics (i.e., Relativity and Quantum Mechanics) is that it is counter-intuitive. This is not unexpected: our evolutionary history in no way requires that we have an innate understanding of the mechanisms underpinning the Universe at all scales. That said, this criticism is not uniquely limited to modern Physics. In this post I explore concepts that we often take for granted today, and how those could have seemed counter-intuitive to people of earlier times.