| Show AN EXPLORING TRIP INTO THE REALMS OF relativity TN T N il i L its ats a aasc fascinate fco do you everge ever igo ig o exploring in in a library ells the occupation for a spare mom moment e nt and if one happ hap 1 it 10 y right thing the less time one has the more falting efcic intro dul prove the end being unknown a stir surprising tile tion for months says s 3 may furnish mental adventure gi ginders bulletin for october natures to be one of the most disturbingly thrilling 1 acla 0 of o the met with in the technical library is found in a h el relativity that it is gene generally raIly conceded tha thang tonly itt matician or student of pure science can andel understand cafa it almost lan ian adventure in itself that parts ot of it are arof 0 f dt to the ordinary reader any of g an rl 0 flie orY o in montary texts such as lorentus the fenste nor Rela relativity tivit y or a bulletin of the university of 01 easily ly ain V oder Soi science encel is is called relativity a romance of stood and offers the most thrilling of espic vh we bol 11 for instance suppose that light 1 ray ays s w and 00 d v be bent n t really always considered straight are alre out of shape by gravity and that shape varies with speed of nio motion tion an orange that looks round to you can teach this truth profound to you there IS no round no oblong and no square the rule you must be guided by Is this shape is decided by the rate that you are moving through the air moreover it seems that parallel lines do eventually meet that no line can be really straight and that the sum of the angles of a triangle is b greater than a straight ang angle angile ile by amount increasing with the size of the triangle its a bit disturbing to think weve based our lives on a physics that so and a geometry that wont work and never knew the difference but it also rather thrilling to think that theres an entirely now new field for physical and mathematical exploration that will probably not for centuries interfere with our daily borkor work or in the way we built ouia bridges or light our houses and that fourth dimension theory most people have considered it a joke or at least nothing more important than a scientific nig nightmare but what lit if theres something in it after all time may be another dimension when two bodies equidistant stand from some point non existent and the space between is twenty minutes 9 time you may logically find yourself A yard or two behind yourself in a state of high detachment sublime at least it might be sublimely interesting if you catch up with yourself again when we get this far our safe and comfortable little three dimensional universe appears to ibe be getting rather tangled theres nothing that is solid nor particularly squalid for all matter is electrons more the chair you you res rest t upon could be transmuted into energy and leave you sitting flat upon the floor such theories when too numerous are really far from humorous consider if they really once began on the atoms in a willow to stop them making kilowatts of you and me to operate a fan C E M west |
