If Something Can Never Be Detected, Is It There? — Where Knowing and Being Are One
The most admired theory of the nineteenth century has never failed an experiment — and it died anyway, because a patent clerk noticed that a difference which can never make a difference isn't a secret, it's a defect in our vocabulary. Einstein used that deletion twice and got relativity both times. Tonight we aim his move at the deepest distinction we have: past the horizon where no interference can ever be staged, 'the world hasn't settled it' and 'the world settled it and I haven't heard' can never be told apart — so what if, out there, they are one thing? A slow night about an equivalence…
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