TELEVISION: the medium that makes relativity understandable
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The concept of relativity with multiple dimensions, multiple universes and different ways to view the same thing is actualized in our world with the television set. This comes not just from the ability to change channels and watch something totally different, but form the ability of filmmakers to take a story and easily jump from time frame to time frame, place to place and even universe to universe while maintaining a continuous thread of meaning throughout (read: the storyline).

Think about it, the jarring changes that audiences may not have been able to follow when movies and TV first came out, now we can easily conceive the concept of moving from place to place, time frame to time frame, even universe to universe very easily. Could you imagine someone from the 1800s, with a mind that has never experieinced a TV show or a film, understanding such concepts with ease? Not likely.

Do most people really understand the concept on an intellectual level? Some do, but seeing this represented in TV every day helps a great deal. It makes it intuitive and understandable in a very real sense so that moving from an intuitive level of understanding to an intellectual level of understanding is significantly easier.

So perhaps watching TV is indeed not the waste of time that many people think it is. Perhaps it is mental training for understanding, on an intuitive level, the concepts of relativity as we move into an age of post-Newtonian physics. Let the kids stay up and watch TV, they will need those nerual pathways in the years to come...