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I was just skimming Einstein's theories of relativity and I just can't understand it. I feel sad. Does anyone here get it? My brain just doesn't have the power, I can't think abtractly.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what a bomb to drop into casual conversation.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/einstein_library/index.htm

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

people always refer to the monster as einstein but in fact einstein was the monster's creator.

― duane, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tee hee. (I gets it)

― Kim, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant le humour du duane, not that crazy Einstein nonsense.

― Kim, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i can do special, but not general. and it's pronounced skel-ING-ton you fools, not skel-E-ton. grrr

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I understand most of Special Relativity, but my understanding of General Relativity is very sketchy nowadays. Bleeding tensors.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and it's ScaleXtriC not ScaleCtriX.

I never did finish 'A Brief History of Time'...

― DavidM, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can cook spaghetti.

― bnw, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't get how space can be warped by gravity

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RT: NO. I can see you are tempted, but just don't. Think of badgers.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah: wuh? Mike: mass warps space not gravity. gravity is the warping.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Sarah was worried that I was about to launch into an long and tedious explanation of basic GR.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

everything is relative, including evrything, relative to everything.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I was. I would prefer it if you would explain Forth to me over on the 8 bit thread. In fact I would like to be tort about parameters and delimiters please. I know : bobface ."THE BIG HOUSE" cr; would print THE BIG HOUSE on the scren when it is executed however what good that does to man nor beast I do not know. AND WHAT IS A STACK?

― Sarah, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stacks are lovely and precious. Without them, your computer would be a big-ass paperweight.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stack = basic method of organizing memory on a computer. Like a stack of papers, except a "stack" of numbers which you've been working with. You can push something on to the top of it, pop it off to use it, and sometimes do other things as well, like reshuffling. Forth is a stack based language (unlike, say, C which is ultimately register based).

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how can gravity be a force AND a form?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

form manifests as force

― mark s, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not force&form but wave&particle, just like light. So the theory goes.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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