Sneaky

If there is any kind of complex intelligence behind this situation we all find ourselves in it sure is a sneaky one: very astute, or rather astuto. The Spanish usage is far more direct with its implication of reprehensible cunning.

Take frames of reference for example. How bloody sneaky are they? From my perspective something like the collapse of a star will appear to be an objectively infinite process. Yet locally to the collapsing star, relativity theory suggests that the impact on the fabric of time itself will be such that the event is finite, short-lived even. For the very same reason it would be difficult to actually have a perspective local to that collapsing star, but my point is this. A universe that allows the same event to take place in both an instant and an infinite amount of time is muy astuto indeed.

Here's another thing - multi-dimensionality. Many physcists today insist that there are at least 12 dimensions, but you only need four to show why this aspect of the fabric of reality is utterly sneaky. Draw two dots on a flat surface. In two dimensions these points are obviously unconnected, yet they could be points on a three-dimensional circle. Our senses have trouble with anything more than three dimensions, but we know that the others are out there, with their potential for imperceptible connectivity.

The fourth dimension has its own peculiar set of sneaky qualities, such as a bendy nature that is greatly at variance with the way it is experienced down here on our scale.