I legitimately find your cognitive dissonance interesting. I think you're on the other end - you may understand the fundamentals so well that your brain isn't p

I legitimately find your cognitive dissonance interesting. I think you're on the other end - you may understand the fundamentals so well that your brain isn't processing the question / conundrum in the way that others see it. Honing in on the the scales of the arms as your reaction the paper is why I think this, as that's not related to the problem. And, well, you said it yourself, you don't understand the question: > No clue why GP thinks it "shouldn't work" It's also possible you think that this is all about laser interferometry, and aren't properly considering how it could work in the context of compressing space, since a laser interferometry system in compressed space wouldn't produce interference.