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While the IO9 post is better than most pop-physics articles, I feel a need to repeat myself... Your question contains invalid assumptions. There is no analogy
by AngryParsley 16y ago
While the IO9 post is better than most pop-physics articles, I feel a need to repeat myself...
Your question contains invalid assumptions. There is no analogy that gives both a satisfying and accurate answer. You want to know about physics? Understand the math. The closest you can get without differential equations is Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- gaius 16y agoDid you see Agora yet? In it the mathematician Hypatia in 4th century Egypt (played by Rachel Weisz) makes the radical announcement that circles are not really shapes in their own right, they're just a type of ellipse, and everyone wigs out - everything they know about astronomy and physics will have to be rethought. Anyway, awesome film.
- AngryParsley 16y agoI watched Agora tonight. It was good. I didn't know a movie could cause me to dislike religion even more than I already did.