Posts tagged with einstein
A Mathematical Framework for the Universe
By the early 1900s, it was clear that Newtonian mechanics was in trouble. It could not explain how objects moved near the speed of light, leading to Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Newton’s theory of universal gravitation was in similarly hot water, as it could not explain the motion of Mercury around the Sun. Concepts […]
Artificial and Imperfect Intelligence
(from CNN): Artificial intelligence often induces fear, awe or some panicked combination of both for its impressive ability to generate unique human-like text in seconds. But its implications for cheating in the classroom — and its sometimes comically wrong answers to basic questions — have left some in academia discouraging its use in school or […]
How many dimensions you may ask?
Over the past century, the quest to describe the geometry of space has become a major project in theoretical physics, with experts from Albert Einstein onwards attempting to explain all the fundamental forces of nature as byproducts of the shape of space itself. While on the local level we are trained to think of space […]
Something to think about…
Einstein’s brain weighed 2.7 lb, while the average male brain weighs 3 lb.
Time for Time Travel?
Hold onto your flux capacitors! A young University of Queensland student may never be late for class again – or even early for that matter. He says he has found a way to “square the numbers” and prove that “paradox-free” time travel is theoretically possible in our universe. From Back To The Future to Terminator, stories […]
Did Einstein Really Flunk at Math?
In this picture, taken in 1934, a rather nervous-looking Albert Einstein gives a lecture to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh. But, rumour has it that he failed in his early math exams. Scientists announced in 2016 that they had detected gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes in […]
Back to the Future Pt2
Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at UBC’s Okanagan campus, recently published a study about the feasibility of time travel. Tippett, whose field of expertise is Einstein’s theory of general relativity, studies black holes and science fiction when he’s not teaching. Using math and physics, he has created a formula that describes a method […]
We can’t go back in time, can we?
Hey, with Daylight Saving coming into effect, we lost an hour last night, but where did it go? I was taught that, in order to go back in time, you would need to travel faster than the speed of light (thanks Einstein). But, the physicists tell us, this is impossible, so we can’t have lost […]