The reason I don't believe in physics.

[Trekker4747]

Comeon, a bunch of old stodgy English guys came up with all of these "rules" and "laws" centuries ago and we can't break or bend these rules? Really?! How did they do all of this? They didn't have computers!

Oh,"what goes up must come down!" Right, what about the Voyager probe, huh? That shit ain't coming back down!

 

[What's his face]

Your ideas are intriguing to me and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter

 

[Miss Chicken]

Comeon, a bunch of old stodgy english guys came up with all of these "rules" and "laws" centuries ago and we can't break or bend these rules? Really?! How did they do all of this? They didn't have computers!

Oh,"what goes up must come down!" Right, what about the Voyager probe, huh? That shit ain't coming back down!

They weren't all English. Einstein, for example, was a German.

But Newton was an stodgy as they come. I believe I read he died a virgin.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Englishmen in the 18th century? Germans in the 20th centuty?

Try Italians in the 16th century.

 

[Marie1]

Pfffft, Italians are just a myth...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Englishmen in the 18th century? Germans in the 20th centuty?

Try Italians in the 16th century.

Try Greeks in the 7th Century, BC.

 

[Mistral]

I've always had a problem with the physicists who say E=MC2 won't let us travel faster than light. Looks like shoddy math to me.

E=MC2 says if you take matter, accelerate it to the speed of light(186,000miles per second) squared it will convert to energy. Boom, or something. OK, but how does that keep you from going faster than light?

E does not equal matter accelerated to 186,000miles/sec. So you should be able to go 186,001miles/second, exceeding ever so slightly the speed of light without ever converting to E(energy). Poof, instant star travel. So, yeah, I have a hard time trusting physicists.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Englishmen in the 18th century? Germans in the 20th centuty?

Try Italians in the 16th century.

Try Greeks in the 7th Century, BC.

I thought about writing that, actually. But, for all my love of pre-Socratic philosophers like Thales, I cannot in all honesty claim that they were pursuing science in the same way modern physicists do, since that was a time when science and philosophy were one and the same. Still, the first seed of science is was planted in that age, but it was not until Galileo and his peers that the tree would bear its fruits.

 

[Goliath]

When will the lab-coated priests of science open their minds and acknowledge that gravity is just a theory?

Teach the controversy!

 

[Trekker4747]

I've always had a problem with the physicists who say E=MC2 won't let us travel faster than light. Looks like shoddy math to me.

E=MC2 says if you take matter, accelerate it to the speed of light(186,000miles per second) squared it will convert to energy. Boom, or something. OK, but how does that keep you from going faster than light?

E does not equal matter accelerated to 186,000miles/sec. So you should be able to go 186,001miles/second, exceeding ever so slightly the speed of light without ever converting to E(energy). Poof, instant star travel. So, yeah, I have a hard time trusting physicists.

I spent the better part of a couple hours once trying to explain to someone what E=MC^2 was and why it wasn't "the theory of relativity."

 

[Docbrown777]

It took me awhile to finally really wrap my head around the conclusions that relativity came too. If you can sit down and spend time to truly understand it it is some very interesting stuff. I'm not even good at math. I like it when pictures are used to explain it.

For the longest time I had a big "?" at the idea that not only can you not travel faster then light but the faster you go the slower time passes (relative to someone that isn't traveling as fast as you of course).

Really it is almost impossible to explain this stuff well in words (why I like pictures and graphs so much). There's a great series on youtube about it though. I think it is four parts.

 

[Trekker4747]

I about blew a co-worker's mind once when I explained to him that time was moving slower for him because he was standing closer to a large mass than I was.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

I spent the better part of a couple hours once trying to explain to someone what E=MC^2 was and why it wasn't “the theory of relativity.”

In the minds of the lay public, Einstein's famous equation, the theory of relativity, and the idea that nothing can travel faster than light all sort of blur together. It's kind of like the popular misconception that Senator Joseph McCarthy had something to do with the Hollywood blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations (he was a senator, right?).

I about blew a co-worker's mind once when I explained to him that time was moving slower for him because he was standing closer to a large mass than I was.

He was standing next to Kirstie Alley?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Since this was the first parody thread and it's generated a little discussion I'll let it stay open, but let's not start opening a bunch of copycats, please. I don't want this becoming like TNZ in March with 30+ "Has _______ forgiven _______ for _______" parody threads in a month.

 

[Gepard]

Oh yeah? Well I don't believe in moderators. So there.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Oh yeah? Well I don't believe in moderators. So there.

Someone's getting a picture of a lump of coal in their PM box this Christmas.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

Since this was the first parody thread and it's generated a little discussion I'll let it stay open, but let's not start opening a bunch of copycats, please. I don't want this becoming like TNZ in March with 30+ “Has _______ forgiven _______ for _______” parody threads in a month.

What about the “Kids Raised by Wolves” thread (a knockoff of “Kids Raised by Lesbians”)? That one was funny.

 

[Mistral]

Oh yeah? Well I don't believe in moderators. So there.

Someone's getting a picture of a lump of coal in their PM box this Christmas.

See? This is why I only screw with non-moderators. Bad things can happen....

 

[RoJoHen]

Oh yeah? Well I don't believe in moderators. So there.

Someone's getting a picture of a lump of coal in their PM box this Christmas.

I say bring it on!

 

[FordSVT]

I've always had a problem with the physicists who say E=MC2 won't let us travel faster than light. Looks like shoddy math to me.

E=MC2 says if you take matter, accelerate it to the speed of light(186,000miles per second) squared it will convert to energy. Boom, or something. OK, but how does that keep you from going faster than light?

E does not equal matter accelerated to 186,000miles/sec. So you should be able to go 186,001miles/second, exceeding ever so slightly the speed of light without ever converting to E(energy). Poof, instant star travel. So, yeah, I have a hard time trusting physicists.

Go read up on the topic and think about it again. You don't understand mass-energy equivalence or relativity.