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Limericks of Physics - 1

To love Physics one just has to care For the universe heart described there, Relativity's Laws Are much like Santa Claus, Einstein's Tensors just floating on air. Brian Johnston August 22, 2014 Poet's Notes: Just one hundred years ago this poem would have had a different ending... Newton's Vectors just floating on air. Post Einstein however things are both simpler and more complicated as physicists struggle to come up with an equation that describes everything! To help laymen perhaps just a little, a 'Vector' is a mathematical expression for a force that has a direction (in three dimensions). A Tensor, though it is hard if not impossible to imagine except by means of a mathematical expression (a physicist cannot see it in his mind either) , can be thought of as a multi-dimensional Vector that can occupy more than three dimensions. Hope that helps! Ha! It seems that God's simplicity is not that simple for man! Who would have guessed?

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