Top 3 facts that would blow the facebook generation away?

[mfb]

What is required for time travel then?
You enter a black box, wait for time t, and leave the box, the time in the world has advanced by t+x with x>0. Is that time travel?
In science fiction stories, t is something like seconds to hours and x can be several years. With the ISS, t is something like one year and x is some milliseconds.Freezing something does not change time - it slows down chemical processes (but not nuclear decays and other stuff), but not the time itself.

 

[ThomasT]

What is required for time travel then?

I don't know. As far as I know time travel is just a nonsensical grouping of agile terms.

You enter a black box, wait for time t, and leave the box, the time in the world has advanced by t+x with x>0. Is that time travel?

No.

 

[Redbelly98]

Top 3 facts that would blow the facebook generation away?

1. I remember being blown away when I learned that magnetic forces can be explained as a modification of electric forces due to relativistic effects. (See E. Purcell's text on Electricity and Magnetism.)

2. Now I am blown away that a good quantitative theory of magnetism was developed before people knew anything about relativity.

3. Likewise, that thermodynamics was developed before the existence of atoms and molecules was established.

 

[Borg]

Top 3 facts that would blow the facebook generation away?

1. Not everything on Wikipedia is true.

2. Before GPS when it was possible to get lost.

3. There was a time before Al Gore when the internet didn't exist.

 

[TheOtherDave]

1. Not everything on Wikipedia is true.

2. Before GPS when it was possible to get lost.

3. There was a time before Al Gore when the internet didn't exist.

Minor point... It's still possible to get lost with GPS. For instance, my car is thoroughly convinced that I drive through a cornfield on my way to work ("Recalculating... Don't forget the butter..."), but the reality is that I drive over an ex-cornfield that's been turned into a tollway and the maps haven't been updated.

 

[larrybud]

I think a few people are missing the point of the OPs question. The "Facebook" generation don't have a clue about Einstein, or relativity, or muons... Need simpler facts that they can understand.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

I think a few people are missing the point of the OPs question. The "Facebook" generation don't have a clue about Einstein, or relativity, or muons... Need simpler facts that they can understand.

I am one of the facebook generation (it became popular in my mid-teens but before that myspace and MSN were ubiquitous) and the suggestion that we need simpler facts or that there are 3 things that would specifically blow us away over any other demographic is both foolish and insulting.

 

[Opus_723]

I humbly defer to Neil deGrasse Tyson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU

 

[D H]

I think a few people are missing the point of the OPs question. The "Facebook" generation don't have a clue about Einstein, or relativity, or muons... Need simpler facts that they can understand.

The text of your tweet is too long.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

The text of your tweet is too long.

Actually the younger generation (25 years and below) only make up 17% of Twitter's demographic and only 30% of Facebook's.

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-facebook-vs-twitter-demographics-2010-2011/

I've got to reiterate my previous post here, the idea that the "facebook generation" is somehow intellectually inferior to their predecessors I would say is bunk.