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Impossible figures like the Penrose triangle feel wrong because vision cannot build a coherent object. The paper argues the same for language: when tangled sentences cause similar confusion, we don’t trigger a pure grammar module, but communicative skills that judge them not worth the effort.

Paper experimentally demonstrates the Terrell–Penrose effect by capturing snapshot images of objects moving at relativistic speeds that appear rotated rather than length-contracted