who has read Einstein's theory on relativity?

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I'm reading it right now, I dropped it for a while but have picked it back up. I like it but am having to constantly referring to earlier chapters which is fine.

I admire the knowledge given, although I'm only on page 26 its really equating to about 100 pages of a novel just because of how its written.

Anyway I just wanted to start a discussion thread on it. I figured it might be fruitful and maybe we can talk about what we've learned from it and so on

 

[Liu Kang]

I haven't but @badhat most likely have and might be a good asset on this discussion.

 

[badhat]

My favorite part about Einstein is in 1905, he wrote papers on mass-energy equivalence, the photoelectric effect/quantization of photons, Brownian motion, and special relativity.

Any one of those would've won him the Nobel Prize, and he has 4 utterly different breakthroughs within about 7 months.

 

[#StarkSet]

My favorite part about Einstein is in 1905, he wrote papers on mass-energy equivalence, the photoelectric effect/quantization of photons, Brownian motion, and special relativity.

Any one of those would've won him the Nobel Prize, and he has 4 utterly different breakthroughs within about 7 months.

miracle of 1905



just how he saw the world compared to a normal human had to be

 

[Drip Bayless]

No, only summaries. I really should tho

 

[tmonster]

I'm reading it right now, I dropped it for a while but have picked it back up. I like it but am having to constantly referring to earlier chapters which is fine.

I admire the knowledge given, although I'm only on page 26 its really equating to about 100 pages of a novel just because of how its written.

Anyway I just wanted to start a discussion thread on it. I figured it might be fruitful and maybe we can talk about what we've learned from it and so on

which author?

 

[badhat]

I'd recommend The Road to Reality by Penrose for anyone interested.

It's a good introduction to modern physics in general, although I like Susskind a little more for quantum. But Penrose covers basic relativity without sugarcoating anymore than is necessary.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

which author?

What do you mean? Like translator?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

My favorite part about Einstein is in 1905, he wrote papers on mass-energy equivalence, the photoelectric effect/quantization of photons, Brownian motion, and special relativity.

Any one of those would've won him the Nobel Prize, and he has 4 utterly different breakthroughs within about 7 months.

the photoelectric effect is legit my favorite one

so simple

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

miracle of 1905



just how he saw the world compared to a normal human had to be

Whats crazy is that he didn't have the math background to do it...he used a lot of help

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

da jewz

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

Whats crazy is that he didn't have the math background to do it...he used a lot of help

Well from some of the things I'm reading it's really based on logic

 

[tmonster]

What do you mean? Like translator?

yeah

 

[tmonster]

The Road to Reality by Penrose

Guiiiiiiys...are we starting a book club? because it sounds like we are starting a book club...you guys

 

[PikaDaDon]

Surprised to see this topic here. How can you guys casually read advanced physics shyt and understand it? I didn't know there were any physicists on the coli.