Recent content by stickman76

"I don't know that any of us are trying to debunk the myth. I'm pretty sure the forum would have locked this thread on day 1 if that were the case." Yes I 100% agree on that- it wasn't what I was suggesting, just that it's frustrating that wackadoodles on YouTube have kids believing that the...

I would suggest doing the test of Eratostenes. In the classroom, you could use a globe, a light and some matchsticks. Duplicate the experiment and use a ruler to measure the shadows and come up with approximate measurements. Not perfect but it will certainly show that Earth is a sphere, not...

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons" Edwin Hubble

I checked it out, thank you. Anything utilizing graphics is helpful to learn these concepts. I’m compiling a list of bookmarks to animations like this so anything else you can suggest is greatly appreciated.

There is a relationship between each of the mathematical values in each of the paradoxes with regard to each observers. There is obviously also a relationship between every situation we study in the Special Theory of Relativity. The Lorentz Transformations obviously prove this. So, I began to...