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who has read Einstein's theory on relativity?
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I wouldn't, gets all confusing
Poh SIti Dawn
Staying Positive, Getting Better Everyday. Holler!
Well if it is explained with a bit of logic, considering anything that doesn't involve mysticism or religion, must be explained in logic. add some equations blam.
I took calc one and that's about it, but shoot it doesn't hurt to introduce yourself to this knowledge and with effort learn more about the worls
Leave it to the agnostic atheist, the logical equivalent of a menstruating teenage girl to mock the quest for knowledge
, we remember you 
@Monsieur. Fox which theory do you find most interesting
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I'm reading it right now as well, I read the Elegant Universe by. Brian Greene and the Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins before I read the Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. Knowing about the slight dichotomy between General Relativity (and by a stretch Special Relativity) and Quantum Mechanics, makes me want to know a lot more about it (in-depth).
OneManGang
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I ain't gonna front in here. I have a chem degree and was exposed to a lot of this stuff...but the shyt still looks like ancient alien language to me half the time. I only understand after I've read through a textbook where the information in the original paper is broken down into it's simplest forms. I still can't explain to you what an eigenfunction is...but I did a year of physical chemistry and thermodynamics.
wat?Leave it to the agnostic atheist, the logical equivalent of a menstruating teenage girl to mock the quest for knowledge :mjlol, we remember you
Poh SIti Dawn
Staying Positive, Getting Better Everyday. Holler!
Lool didn't know I was being mockedLeave it to the agnostic atheist, the logical equivalent of a menstruating teenage girl to mock the quest for knowledge
I'm all over the place, with the book at least (edit: actually in life tbh) . What I found the most interesting so far was the idea of positioning being a factor in observation. To one person a dropped object can fall in a straight line, to another it can be a parabola. Also light being a factor as well. Wbu?
Poh SIti Dawn
Staying Positive, Getting Better Everyday. Holler!
Are you in college now?
Poh SIti Dawn
Staying Positive, Getting Better Everyday. Holler!
What are you doing with your chem degree? Chem was always hard to me but I never truly applied myself tbh
OneManGang
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Did some medicinal chem research for a while, then went to pharmacy school.
Edit: @Monsieur. Fox
at you saying chem was hard. Came pretty easy for me. Calc 1 and Calc 2 though 
I promise myself before I'm too
I'm going to relearn calculus up to like calc 4 just for self enrichment.
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once you got the basics
I was not mocking anyone
I was dead serious
and you still haven't told me which translator/author you are reading
I studied relativity but I never read Einstein's paper. But I skimmed the paper, and yeah, it's pretty much what I studied. I needed to draw out diagrams in order to fully understand it. Helped significantly imo.
Link to the paper for those that would like to read it:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/einstein/works/1910s/relative/relativity.pdf
Link to the paper for those that would like to read it:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/einstein/works/1910s/relative/relativity.pdf
Yeah, Econ and Political Science major though. Physics is just for fun.
