Introduction to Special Relativity
A physics grad's enthusiastic deep-dive into special relativity — the wild theory of time travel and teleportation that made them major in physics in the first place!
I’ve prepared a special feature on special relativity.
Many people are probably very interested in the theory of relativity.
A huge part of why I decided to major in physics was precisely ’the theory of relativity,’ after all heheheh??
-Even if it killed me, I wanted to understand why on earth!!! physics says time travel is
’theoretically possible, but practically impossible.’ heheheh
This was the biggest factor in my decision to enroll, and the next biggest was teleportation!!! lolololol
Well, anyway!! (I finished all four years of enrollment, and now I’ve completed all my credits, but don’t come to the physics department! lolololololololol)
(I’m joking lolololol it would be too tragic to live without knowing this system of knowledge humanity has built up, and then die leaving it behind T_T_T definitely come to the physics department!!!!)
But, as I was looking through the theory of relativity,
there were moments when I slapped my knee going ‘Ah! So that’s how this thing I knew as common sense is actually described!’ heheheh
So I started scribbling and organizing bit by bit, and now I’m writing about relativity like this,
aaaaaaah first of all I need to say that I’ll only be covering ‘special’ relativity.
General relativity hasn’t been organized yet heheheheh when I’ve built up more mastery and feel confident I can give a killer explanation of general relativity, I’ll prepare a special feature on it!!
That is, I do feel confident I can give a killer explanation of special relativity!!! heheh
For those who are interested, I think it’ll be worth a look!!
Alright, I’m going to begin now,
hmm…
I already described the basics once before in myrelated note.
But, it looks like I’ll end up saying it one more time here
Because, I feel like things are a bit better organized now than when I wrote that????
so I’m going to just do it one more time.
And when this explanation is all done,
unless you’re in the physics department,
I’ll take an approach to special relativity that you probably wouldn’t have heard anywhere else!
Then let’s begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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