Relativity Archive

Book Review: This Explains Everything

This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works John Brockman (Editor) Harper Perennial, 2013 432 pages (Kindle edition) Available Amazon

3 for Thursday: 3 Minutephysics on Light

One of my favorite subscriptions on YouTube is MinutePhysics. Each video is an infusion of physics and short bursts of animation; it’s entertaining. Interested in learning about Einstein, neutrinos, or the Higgs Boson, but don’t have the time to do a lot of reading, this is one subscription you never want to miss. Below

3 for Thursday: 3 Ways Einstein is Practical

Last year, when scientists believed they may have found faster than light neutrinos, everyone wondered if the foundation of physics was about to be upturned. Were we going to have to re-write the user’s manual for the universe? Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus were ablaze with likes, shares, re-tweets of hastily released news articles