You Are Not Where You Think You Are
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DownloadLook around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room,
maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions.
But… where is all of that? While this may feel like a daft question,
it turns out that the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up.
In a nutshell, the universe is a big bag of space that has things in it.
If someone removed all these things, the stars and planets and black holes and dust,
there would just be empty space left. In empty space, the concept of having
a position loses all meaning. Empty space is uniform, the same everywhere.
The space we occupy is not like a stage under our feet. We can't mark specific points,
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Key Vocabulary (18)
Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.
A system is a group of parts that work together as a whole. It can be used to describe a set of rules, a computer program, or a part of the body.
This word describes something that is correct, accurate, or based on facts. It is also used to talk about actions that are morally good or socially acceptable.
"That's the right answer to the question."
As an adverb at a C2 level, it denotes presence, availability, or existence within a specific vicinity or context. It is also used to indicate approximate values or to describe movement or positioning that encircles a point or lacks a specific direction.
In this specific context, it describes something that is minor, secondary, or small in scale, often referring to roles or components within a larger system. It is frequently used attributively to indicate that a part or person has limited importance or duration.
A galaxy is a very large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity. There are billions of galaxies in the universe, and our home is called the Milky Way.
Grammar in This Video
"Where is this place you are occupying?"
"Our maps make sense to us because we are used to them"
"Which also means that things we take for granted, like up and down are actually..."
"In a nutshell, the universe is a big bag of space"
"the concept of an absolute position is something humans made up"
"try to find out where you are, right now"
"And we made our maps accordingly."
"If someone removed all these things... there would just be empty space left."
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