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David Tennant Explains Einstein

 
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Robert (Butch) Day
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:34 am    Post subject: David Tennant Explains Einstein Reply with quote
Fun!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSAVqm0XBI
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Although somewhat misleading in its whimsy. The bending of light by mass, depicted like this...



...is more properly like this...


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Right, Wayne. In the first picture, we see the light headed straight for the sun, and it seems to deliberately detour around it, after which it turns back to its original path.

In the second picture we see that the light -- which would have simply missed the sun -- is pulled in towards it as it passes the gravity well, then it heads straight away in a new direction after the lateral pull of gravity diminishes.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Time Lord physics, perhaps?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Robert (Butch) Day wrote:
Time Lord physics, perhaps?

Wait . . . Einstein was a Time Lord? Hey, yeah! That explains a lot! Very Happy
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