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?
Copyright © Brian Johnston | Year Posted 2014
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