That is interesting. Have read his books but never seen videos.

What I was trying to get at is I argue that historically we had no reason to assume magnets to exist until we discovered them. (Sure, today we can explain them in terms of the effects of electrons traveling at relativistic speeds.)

It otherwise seems a safe assumption that we cannot move into a 4th spatial dimension (even if such exists) or do many other outlandish things. I don’t think we can prove them impossible but likely just don’t know how.

But imagine if Newton had been shown an electromagnet and asked to explain it… It would have been witchcraft!

Well, it continued to bother Newton. Here, he seems to be foreshadowing the concept of fields:

"It is inconceivable that inanimate Matter should, without the Mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual Contact... That Gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance thro’ a Vacuum, without the Mediation of any thing else, by and through which their Action and Force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this Agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the Consideration of my readers."

https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2008/entries/qm-actio...

A lot of science is crazy but real. Are you not awestruck by the weird ways the real world behaves? Where's your wonder?

Gravity is crazy