>- Secondly, our knowledge of the geometry of the world out there >conflicts with our "common sense" notions of space and time. >Experiments have revealed to us that the events of the world are not >arranged on absolute spatial planes indexed by absolute time but rather >in an absolute spacetime that is carved up into space and time >differently by observers moving in different ways; that has a causal >structure more complicated than we might naively expect; that might >possess boundaries at finite distances or unexpected topologies; and >that it might "break up" into more fundamental structures at small >distance scales. All of these unexpected aspects of the results of >experiments (or, I suppose, of the regularities in the sensations we >receive through our sense organs) suggest to me that the external >spacetime is not simply generated by our minds projecting order onto an >external chaos - for then why would the order so projected differ >profoundly from our intuitions about space and time?
Because a lemur trying to calculate the sqrt(1-((v^2)/(c^2))) corrections to distance measures is unlikely to have enough brainpower left to accurately judge whether it can leap to the next branch?
