How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

I AM unsure I’m presupposed to confess to this in public, however I’m an avid watcher of the British cleaning soap opera Emmerdale. It’s accessible to me within the US by way of a streaming service, and I look ahead to watching every day’s episode, particularly on Thursdays once we get an extended one. The writers are so good at maintaining the drama excessive, and nobody truly will get damage, in contrast to on actuality TV.

A part of how they obtain this excessive drama is through the use of timescales that make …