Einstein's theories explained in 5 minutes: (special) relativity

by Tom 14. January 2010 15:36

Introduction

In the past I have noticed a lot of people talk about (special) relativity and other physics theories, but when you ask them a few questions, they do not seem to grasp the concept....

In this series of blog posts I will try to explain you some of his concepts the way I understand them...

The inspiration for this series has been one of Einstein's quotes :

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

I am no physicist by any means, nor a good mathematician, so you should never ask me any questions about the proof or maths about something, since I simply do not know. If you ask most people about these theories they usually start making it way too complicated for one of the two following reasons :

  • They do not understand it, so they try to blow you away with complicated things they heard about it, so you would stop asking questions about it...
  • They do understand it, but their explanation assumes you know the "language of physicists" - which you do not - so it seems like they are talking Jibberish all the way...

We will start with a very popular concept : the theory of special relativity.

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Tom Janssens is an independent freelance ICT consultant that has been "into computers" ever since the age of 7.

Typing source code from a book evolved into exploring the limits of coding in procedural, assembly and object-oriented languages.
As he matured in software coding, he started focussing on the problems surrounding software development, and learned that software development is usually about people and interactions first, and about technology second.

Due to his diverse track record he gained insights in a lot of aspects of the software development process. Currently his main focus is on strategic ICT advice, lean product/project development and improving the software development process and architecture.

He avoids ivory-tower-approaches by applying and verifying the applicability of the latest tech buzz in software experiments.

He is also the founder of the following LinkedIn groups:

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