you know you gotta be drunk

cstmar01
cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
edited November 2009 in The Clubhouse
when you watch a show about Einsteins theory of relativity and think you understand it.....
wow I'm lame.
:)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    edited November 2009
    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.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,983
    edited November 2009
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    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.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,164
    edited November 2009
    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.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    edited November 2009
    tonyb wrote: »
    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).
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited November 2009
    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.
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited November 2009
    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.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,917
    edited November 2009
    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.
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