Nothing Ever Happens Like You Imagine It Will.

can you explain a bit about the curvature of spacetime or how it's curved?

Thanks for asking!! It’s a little difficult ti picture curved space, so I highly recommend this video, it’s phenomenal at helping you understand how gravity arises from space and time being warped//curved by matter.

I think the above video does a phenomenal job at explaining gravity in terms of warping space and time; definitely watch it. The heavier an object, the more it warps space-time; this means that time gets slowed down with heavier objects, since the space and time become more warped. You may have heard that time flows slower on the earth than it does further up from its surface; time flows faster for astronauts since they experience less of earth’s gravity (since they are further away).

This visualization was the best one I could find? but tbh it’s still hard for pretty much everybody, including the world’s best physicists, to visualize and wrap their head around. Let me know if you have any other questions or need a clarification!! Also, you might want to check out the relativity/general relativity tag on my blog if you want to see some of the other posts i’ve made.

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So last month my Physics teacher demonstrated sound waves using fire and Bohemian Rhapsody. The song is played into a tube filled with gas, and the sound waves cause the gas to compress, changing the height of the flames (I think that was how he explained it anyways)

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard  (via barbellsandfortitude)

Nothing will come from nothing.

Being bitter is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

There is a method to my madness.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Gustave Flaubert (via quotemadness)

The Suzzallo Graduate Reading Room at the University of Washington, Seattle

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