How to pretend to understand relativity without studying it

[BootyBay]

Disclaimer:  All "facts" contained herein came to me while on drugs.  Not only that, but I haven't studied relativity at all.  Therefore, I am not liable for any and all confusion that may occur as a result of reading this.

Why is time the 4th dimension, you ask?  Well, it's all really simple.  Imagine we live in 2-dimensional space.  A square, actually.  Imagine you are standing on the lower left vertice of this square and you then travel to the upper right.  Since time is the 3rd dimension in this model, a cube (assuming the time it takes to complete your journey is equivalent to the edge length of the square) with you traversing its diagonal is the complete space.

Now, if I didn't totally botch that entire thing (and that's a big "if"), lets pretend we have a massive object in our square .  Say it is in the center.  Everyone knows that gravity warps space-time.  But what does that mean?  In the square, that means our cube will become something else (here I wish I could speculate as to what it would look like) and all things traversing it will be affected (not only in the spatial dimensions but in the time dimension as well).

If that's not good enough motivation to study Differential Geometry, I don't know what is.

[Mourning Star]

Whatever you're on...

Overdose.

[Golden Applesauce]

How to pretend to understand relativity without studying it:

KYFMS.



(that works)

[Triple Zero]

bootybay, you're only slightly wrong. but on the right track.

i'm slightly too lazy to suggest a better model for curved space. try to look up the "rubber sheet" analogy for yourself

[Daruko]

It sounds like you wrote that while watching What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole

[Triple Zero]

i watched the first one of those.

it was .. it was ..

some parts were interesting, some parts were UNNNNNNNNNNG

the interesting parts turned out to be mostly bullshit as well, in hindsight

[BootyBay]

bootybay, you're only slightly wrong. but on the right track.

i'm slightly too lazy to suggest a better model for curved space. try to look up the "rubber sheet" analogy for yourself

All right!!  I gotta get me some more 2C-T-2 (everyone knows the best scientists were drugged up).

It sounds like you wrote that while watching What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole

That movie was filmed in my hometown (Portland).

[Triple Zero]

bootybay, you're only slightly wrong. but on the right track.

i'm slightly too lazy to suggest a better model for curved space. try to look up the "rubber sheet" analogy for yourself

All right!!  I gotta get me some more 2C-T-2 (everyone knows the best scientists were drugged up).

no idea what kind of drug that is, but you'll probably understand it better when sober. at the very least, you'll remember more of it.

[P3nT4gR4m]

i watched the first one of those.

it was .. it was ..

some parts were interesting, some parts were UNNNNNNNNNNG

the interesting parts turned out to be mostly bullshit as well, in hindsight

cgi hormone/wedding sequence was a lailfest

wierd bitch channeling space demons was typical newage facepalm

actually most of the rest of it was in that same boat now I think of it

[BootyBay]

bootybay, you're only slightly wrong. but on the right track.

i'm slightly too lazy to suggest a better model for curved space. try to look up the "rubber sheet" analogy for yourself

All right!!  I gotta get me some more 2C-T-2 (everyone knows the best scientists were drugged up).

no idea what kind of drug that is, but you'll probably understand it better when sober. at the very least, you'll remember more of it.

True.  I don't actually use drugs to understand things.  I was loaded when this came to me, however (first part; not the second).  My goal in life is simply to get so good at math I can make nerds tremble in my presence.

[P3nT4gR4m]

  My goal in life is simply to get so good at math I can make nerds tremble in my presence.

Find a good gym - worked for me

[Triple Zero]

i watched the first one of those.

it was .. it was ..

some parts were interesting, some parts were UNNNNNNNNNNG

the interesting parts turned out to be mostly bullshit as well, in hindsight

cgi hormone/wedding sequence was a lailfest

wierd bitch channeling space demons was typical newage facepalm

actually most of the rest of it was in that same boat now I think of it

but it SEEMED so profound at first!!!!

[hunter s.durden]

  My goal in life is simply to get so good at math I can make nerds tremble in my presence.

Find a good gym Kayaking Club, worked for me

[P3nT4gR4m]

Gym made them scared enough to get in the boat - Kayaking makes them drown

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That movie was filmed in my hometown (Portland).

Oregon?