you know you gotta be drunk

[cstmar01]

when you watch a show about Einsteins theory of relativity and think you understand it.....
wow I'm lame.
:)

[mhardy6647]

Special relativity isn't really terribly hard to understand conceptually (although the mathematics is a bit out of reach for me).


Now, if you want to start talking about quantum mechanics... some pharmaceutical enhancement is probably helpful.

[tonyb]

Special relativity isn't really terribly hard to understand conceptually (although the mathematics is a bit out of reach for me).


Now, if you want to start talking about quantum mechanics... some pharmaceutical enhancement is probably helpful.

Normally I read up on that stuff when I am asked to put together furniture from IKEA.

[Tony M]

I met a roommate of a computer game designer and while in his home I found a mathmatical fomulation that was pages long. I asked him about it and he said his roommate did LSD while working on designs.That was 30 years ago and I'm sure that guy had a big part in the gaming worlds early years.

He was also paid very very well he said.

Quantum mathmatics I suppose.

[mhardy6647]

Normally I read up on that stuff when I am asked to put together furniture from IKEA.

I ask my (grown) children to help. Works every time (of course, more often than not, the furniture's for them).

[phuz]

Relativity really isn't difficult to understand, and you don't even need to know algebra to understand it.

Try to wrap your head around string theory.

[cstmar01]

sorry that I seem soo dumb, I was very drunk and very ADD when watching, so it was boring. I do understand it now when i'm sober but when your drunk, no.

[mhardy6647]

the curvature of spacetime in the presence of a large mass... it doesn't get any cooler than that.
Well except, perhaps, for time dilation at relativistic velocities (the way nature gets around the speed of light being an absolute limit). Brian May of Queen even wrote a song about time dilation and relativity, Year of '39. Of course, Dr. May has the PhD in astrophysics (besides being Queen's lead guitarist)...

If you want to try Einstein for Dummies, start with the photoelectric effect -- for which Einstein won the Nobel Prize (in 1921). I believe he sussed that one out while he was still working as a patent clerk.