Thought I would share some interesting tidbits as I continue
my quest to find worthy video clips on the theory of relativity. After viewing video clips with Prof Cox &
Jeff Forshaw, which included watching the series Wonders of the Universe and Wonders
of the Solar System; I decided to begin reading “Why does E=mc2?” by Brian Cox
and Jeff Forshaw; in one word I am mesmerized. This book is written for anyone
who has a compelling interest about how things work, and written with easy to
understand terminology and uses references to everyday examples. In reading the preface and the beginning
chapter titled space and time, I have said wow
probably 10 times and had a tear well up; although I reminded myself from a
line in A League of their Own, there’s no crying in physics…or is there?
One of my wows,
was this beautiful quote…would like to sketch this on a piece of scratch paper
and place it in my pocket everyday as my little reminder for life.
“Science
is a discipline that celebrates uncertainty, and recognizing this is the key to
its success.”
Another interesting little biscuit of information for one to
ponder the magnitude of it all:
“…the earth is moving at about
67,000 miles per hour relative to the sun. If you go to bed at night and sleep
for eight hours, you’ll have traveled over half a million miles by the time you
wake up. You could even claim that, in about 365 days, your bedroom would have
returned to exactly the same point in space since the earth would have
completed one full orbit around the sun.”
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