/sci/ - Science & Math

/sci/, why did I loathe doing my physics labs in high school, but now love doing them in college

is it because I'm doing them in a little black book and I feel fancy doing it?

Masturbate. Cream those walls hard so when you finally get rescued even God himself is appalled at the site.

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>here is the important bit, fags
Though it might seem as ridiculous to discuss the universe’s shape as to try to figure out the universe's scent, it makes perfect sense to mathematicians and physicists. The equations of general relativity liken space and time to a flexible fabric, something like a rubber sheet. Mathematicians have a set of tools that they use to describe curvy and stretchy objects. They make up a whole field of study called differential geometry. Differential geometry allows mathematicians to study curves and surfaces in space. It allows mathematicians to analyze quantities like curvature and torsion that describe the properties of an object in space. Though a rubber-sheet space-time seems like an artificial construct, it is a very natural and powerful idea when you have the tools to deal with it./ Einstein's key insight, the idea that formed the basis for the general theory of relativity, was that space and time behave, MATHEMATICALLY< like a smooth surface. This has a few important consequences. For one thing it explains where gravity comes from. A heavy object, like our sun, distorts that space time fabric, bending it slightly, like a bowling ball on a mattress. If you place a marble on the mattress, it will roll toward the bowling ball because of the curvature of the mattress. Likewise if you place an asteroid near the sun, it will fall towards the sun, because the curvature of space-time forces it to move in that direction.