Friday 11 April 2014

April 11th: Theory of Relativity Day

Theory of Relativity Day

Life is like a bicycle...
  1. When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein
  2. No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. Brian Greene
  3. Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. Leonard Susskind
  4. General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density. Lee Smolin
  5. In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend. Alan Guth
  6. What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists. Frank Tipler
  7. Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen Hawking
  8. Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance. Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
  9. No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted. Elsa Einstein
  10. According to Einstein's Theory of Relatives, the probability of in-laws visiting you is directly proportional to how much you feel like being left alone. Unknown

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