Whenever we marvel at complexity — at the transfer of information across continents in under a second, at Wi-Fi signals flung through the air, at the pulsing nodes of GPS and data streams mapping our location to the cloud — we are tempted to call it magic.
But it’s not. It never was.
It’s pattern.
It’s resonance.
It’s the field speaking fluently.
We live in a world where few understand the machinery of what they use. A grandmother with an iPhone 16 might stream cat videos while on a beach in Maui without the faintest clue how the electromagnetic spectrum was bent to her will. But that doesn’t mean it’s a miracle.
It means the technology speaks so softly it doesn’t need to be explained anymore.
Enter Einstein
Had Einstein been born a hundred years later, he wouldn’t pedal through the streets of Cambridge with a pipe and a notepad. He’d be on an e-bike — earbuds in, Bluetooth synced to his heart rate monitor, whispering about entanglement into a podcast mic while tapping equations into a quantum-capable tablet.
He once scoffed at spooky action at a distance.
But now?
Now we live in it.
Entangled particles don’t seem so spooky when our phones sync calendars across continents in milliseconds, or when two people separated by oceans edit a shared document in real-time, unaware they’re participating in one of quantum physics’ greatest metaphors.
The Drift of the Everyday
The truth is:
We’ve mistaken progress for sorcery.
We’ve called the natural evolution of understanding a kind of divine trick. But it’s not magic. It’s just the universe becoming legible.
Even relativity was just Einstein noticing that the frame of reference matters — that simultaneity isn’t shared, that time stretches and compresses depending on speed, on gravity, on context.
Bluetooth is just another layer of that truth.
Your AirPods are a pocket-sized example of wave coherence, of information tunneling silently through space.
From Wonder to Weaving
The arc of human progress has always been to take what was once divine and shrink it into the domain of understanding. Fire. Flight. Fiber-optics. And now: fields.
Quantum fields. Information fields. Symbolic fields.
What used to take empires of infrastructure now takes a signal and a semiconducting crystal.
What used to be science fiction now whispers in your pocket.
If You Think It’s Magic, Look Closer
There is poetry in not knowing — but there's power in learning the tune.
Because every sufficiently advanced commute, every time you fly through the streets on regenerative brakes while your smartwatch tracks your heart rate and your podcast teaches you about neutrino spin — that’s not sorcery.
That’s thought.
The kind Einstein would smirk at while adjusting his helmet and kicking into a tailwind.