What Does the Cover of Slice of Pie's Album Reveal About Relativity?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers around the interpretation of the cover art of the album "Slice of Pie" and its possible connections to concepts in relativity and electromagnetism. Participants explore various elements of the artwork and their implications for physics theories.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Conceptual clarification, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant requests an explanation of the artwork, noting its connection to relativity due to the presence of Einstein's image.
  • Another participant suggests that the artwork may relate more to the photo-electric effect or electromagnetic fields, proposing that the vector diagram could represent displacement fields, magnetic fields, and the Poynting vector, with a historical note on notation.
  • A participant questions the meaning of the ellipses on the right side of the artwork.
  • Another participant humorously admits confusion about left and right, indicating a lack of clarity regarding the artwork's details.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing interpretations of the artwork, with no consensus on its meaning or the specific physics concepts it may represent.

Contextual Notes

Some assumptions about the artwork's elements remain unexamined, and the discussion does not resolve the interpretations of the vector diagram or the ellipses.

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can someone explain to me what does the picture in the website below describe? (it has to do with something in relativity because there is the picture of einstein in it):
http://www.ts.skwerm.com/mojo/sliceofpi/

btw the picture is the cover of slice of pie's album.
 
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I think it is more likely dealing with the photo-electric effect, or something dealing with EM fields in matter. The vector diagram looks like it is representing displacement field (D), magnetic field(H), and the Poynting vector. The latter is usually represented by an "S" nowadays, but maybe in 1905 it was represented by a capital Pi.

I can't see the details of the part on the left.

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and on the right the elipses what are they represent?
 
I also can't tell my left from my right
 

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