Hooray! One of my favourite topics. And this is a realm of thinking that gets so wonderfully strange when you consider the practical applications. Have you ever read the Mr Tompkins books by physicist George Gamow? He wrote them in 1940, and they're books about general and special relativity for adults in the style of the best children's books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Tompkins They're delightful and mindbending - so many passages that are beautifully logical within the rules of relativity and yet, to our common sense, utterly baffling. So much fun and a great workout for the imagination. Well worth grabbing a paperback edition, or you could wait another 9 years for the books to enter the public domain...
Ps. I managed to find and order a copy of The Timeless Way Of Building - just waiting for it to arrive right now! So thank'ee for that. Now I need to read a copy of Einstein's Mirror (props to your dad!).
Hey Mike, love that you know all about this! Yes, in fact I read Mr Tompkins not that long ago—a gift from my Dad of course. Was thinking of a few more sketches on the weird and wonderful properties of relativity as a result. The length contraction in particular is crazy! It would be nice if more topics has books along these lines to help learn about them.
It was special! We also went to see Interstellar at the giant London IMAX screen a few years ago. When we sat down I learned that the people next to us had travelled from Romania just to come and watch it there =)
Hooray! One of my favourite topics. And this is a realm of thinking that gets so wonderfully strange when you consider the practical applications. Have you ever read the Mr Tompkins books by physicist George Gamow? He wrote them in 1940, and they're books about general and special relativity for adults in the style of the best children's books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Tompkins They're delightful and mindbending - so many passages that are beautifully logical within the rules of relativity and yet, to our common sense, utterly baffling. So much fun and a great workout for the imagination. Well worth grabbing a paperback edition, or you could wait another 9 years for the books to enter the public domain...
Ps. I managed to find and order a copy of The Timeless Way Of Building - just waiting for it to arrive right now! So thank'ee for that. Now I need to read a copy of Einstein's Mirror (props to your dad!).
Hey Mike, love that you know all about this! Yes, in fact I read Mr Tompkins not that long ago—a gift from my Dad of course. Was thinking of a few more sketches on the weird and wonderful properties of relativity as a result. The length contraction in particular is crazy! It would be nice if more topics has books along these lines to help learn about them.
Interstellar with a live orchestra….can only imagine how extraordinary! Thank you for sharing…just the thought of it is amazing!!❤️
It was special! We also went to see Interstellar at the giant London IMAX screen a few years ago. When we sat down I learned that the people next to us had travelled from Romania just to come and watch it there =)
When you return the you you see in the mirror will be younger than you 😳
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Sure, dunno whether spacecraft or land mirror 🤓 one of them though