Last week I was inspired by a poorly presented popular physics lecture to review a couple of concepts in modern physics which people tend to think are impossible, but are not. Most laws of physics have loopholes in them - nothing can travel faster than light unless it carries no information or causes spacetime itself to move, time travel seems paradoxical but there are quantum mechanical solutions, energy must be conserved unless the laws of physics themselves can evolve over time, etc.

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