We live in a relative universe. No place in this universe can be located in absolute terms. When someone asks us for directions to our house we have to know where they are starting from. When someone tells us to meet them at the North Pole at 10 AM we will be at a loss unless they include a time zone.
We take for granted the reference frames in which we live. We have nicely organized our space into coordinates such as latitude, longitude and our time into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Most of us view these artifacts as absolutes and never question the relative nature of things.
A young, wildly independent thinker, however, saw this as an apple cart begging to be tipped.
