Just purchased a Kindle, and I'm pretty excited about it. I spend plenty of time on the road so I imagine the 'text to speach' audio function will translate Hawking's works rather well ;) Do any of you Kindle users have suggestions for any science related texts or blogs/publications?
Adam
The idea of quantum particles being in form when observed and then existing many places when not being observed makes little sense to me. Not just because its foreign or counter intuitive, but for two key reasons. Postulating that it is the case, then we must have a flaw in our observations to...
Titan has rivers of liquid methane creeping in an atmosphere of mostly nitrogen. The lack of oxygen prevents the planet from being ridiculously unstable. Here’s my question -- If an asteroid rich in oxygen (or H2O) crashes into Titan, could the oxygen present in the projectile be enough to...
Do fast moving objects in relative motion always observe length contraction regardless of their direction of travel? In every example I find the train or the rod appears to be “moving toward you.” I can’t find any thought experiments describing what happens after you pass the train and it...
Try visualizing space time as something physical. After all, physics is the study of the physical world. For example, without education, we would most likely think of the air as being nothing. But we now know that air is matter. Imagine being a great white shark shooting out of the south...
I think I'm understanding why we can assign a time for an event based on its distance from a reference frame. We can acknowledge that an event happened at an earlier time if we know the relative distance between us and if we agree on the speed of light.
Say there's an explosion 2...
I love reading this thread! I have to admit, if I had the power, I would never-ever prevent a tornado. Even if someone promised me the world. I think in the long run it would kill more people to disrupt that system. Imagine if we found a way to prevent lightning --only a matter of time and...
Thank you guys! When I get into something I really get into it. I had literally been losing sleep the last week because I couldn't understand these things. So thanks Naty1 for reminding me that its OK to sleep if I don't understand things. Thanks JesseM for helping me realize simultaneity...
I've been learning about Special Relativity as a hobby for the past couple days and for the most part, I've been able to wrap my mind around several concepts (ah-ha moments are awesome) There are still a couple of things that just aren't making sense to me. I understand why time dilation and...