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    An extended and much much more challenging version of Einstein's puzzle

    Here is a version with only one solution: Lady with black dress ranked number 4. Lady from Vietnam stays in Kozz hotel. Lady with red dress stands at the right of the lady who like beer. Lady who likes Rock also has the most beautiful legs. Lady from Brazil stand at the right of the...
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    What Does Curved Space Really Look Like? A Visual Guide to General Relativity

    Just don’t try to. There is a limit to what our brain is able to imagine. Space-time curvature is out of its scope. Richard Dawkins wrote in "The Blind Watchmaker": "Just as our eyes can see only that narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies that natural selection equipped our ancestors to...
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    An extended and much much more challenging version of Einstein's puzzle

    I wrote a program that solves this puzzle and got 25408 different solutions. Am I missing somthing, or is it just unsuccessful attempt to design a 7x7 grid puzzle?
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    What is a Simple Explanation of General Relativity for High School Students?

    You can try this for a start: http://www.polarhome.com:763/~rafimoor/english/GRE.htm
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    Understanding Newton's Laws in Non-Inertial Reference Frames

    Hi, The general theory of relativity is based on the equivalence principle that says that acceleration is equivalent to a gravity field. If, for this discussion, we ignore Earth gravity, an accelerating car can be considered stationary in a constant uniform gravity field. Everything outside...
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    Twin Paradox: Earth-Twin vs Space-Twin Aging

    You can read a little about the twins paradox here: http://www.polarhome.com:763/~rafimoor/english/SRE.htm#The%20Twins%20Paradox and also on the Q&A of this article
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    What will happen to time if we travel away from Earth at 0.9999c?

    The hardest thing in special relativity is to accept that time is not absolute. It is against our common sense. By asking who is aging more you assume that there is an absolute time scale by which we can compare Bob's and Phil's aging. But according to special relativity this is not the case...
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