Multiple Choice
Why do the predicted consequences of the special theory of relativity seem so strange to most of us?
A) because they are self-contradictory,making it impossible to make any sense of them
B) because they are obvious only at speeds that we never experience in our daily lives
C) because they contradict the well-tested ideas of Newton's laws of motion
D) because they affect only subatomic particles and not big things like people
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