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I don't mean to be awkward, honestly, but we didn't get to relativity through science! The idea of relativity has a long history, at least back to Galileo, and the realisation that there had to be a universal limiting velocity had been around for some time too.
Newton's laws of motion, which seem so obvious now, are very counter-intuitive as we don't live in a world free from friction.
Perhaps 'counter-intuitive' may perhaps mean just what we are used to?
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