Why simulate relativity when Newtonian mechanics requires simpler math, and therefore fewer computing resources?

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Newtonian physics gives way to quantum mechanics.

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What Rushkoff and Malik are describing is a new experience of physics for humans, more akin to magic or at least quantum mechanics than to the classical Newtonian physics on which the modern world was based.

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