Quantum mechanics provoked a much bigger and much spookier revision of the classical and common sense world view.
Special relativity is one of the best-confirmed theories in history.
Every time you run an electric motor, every time a cosmic ray particle falls from the sky, every time physicists fire up a particle accelerator, every time you use the Global Positioning System to figure out where you are, you confirm special relativity. Our intuitions about time and space are derived from our own experience, living as we do on a planet and moving at velocities much, much lower than the speed of light. But there are unfunny parts to the column as well. Neither is attractive. I've attached the bulk of the column below.