Yes, read it on holiday. For about a month afterwards I was able to explain relativity to

someone else, which is really the benchmark for a proper understanding of something, but now I can't without waffling and getting things wrong.

"It's like, right, imagine like a clock, but put that clock on a spaceship so that it can move right quick, and then fly that spaceship away at nearly the speed of light, and then back at nearly the speed of light, right, then open the box and the cat may or may not be dead, but definitely is one or the other but you don't know until you open the box. No, hang on, that's a different thing. Right, imagine like a statellite above the earth ..." and it carries on in that vein.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on December 19th 2011 at 14:04:53

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that professor brian cox duder off of on the telly... (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 13:38:29
- Earthflight off on tonight looks good (General Chat) - Huge Small, Dec 19, 14:57:00
- Understood most of it. One or two leaps of faith required at times, but it made sense... (n/m) (General Chat) - Stringy Bob, Dec 19, 14:10:03
  - a couple of childish "experiments" and 50 minutes of utter bullshit (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:18:19
  - Did he get on to Stringy Theory? (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Dec 19, 14:11:15
    - No (n/m) (General Chat) - Stringy Bob, Dec 19, 14:16:48
    - Tummy string? (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 19, 14:13:55
      - Can Tummy String be in two places at once? Yes it can. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Dec 19, 14:18:16
        
        Yes, on your sports sock, (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 19, 14:39:06
        
        You're never meeting my son. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 14:51:08
        
        is what Jim Tim desperately wishes he had said. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Dec 19, 14:58:45
        
        Lol. (n/m) (General Chat) - Stringy Bob, Dec 19, 15:17:29
        
        Haha. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Dec 19, 14:59:37
        
        FFS !! (General Chat) - jafski, Dec 19, 14:46:34
- his shows are usually beyond epic (General Chat) - SCC 28, Dec 19, 14:06:30
  - ^^^ Didn't understand it. Now bitter. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 14:08:09
    - you won't understand it either (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:15:01
      - I won't. I already understand enough about QT to know that I won't understand QT. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 14:23:08
        
        i like david dimleberries though (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:24:51
    - the stars bit was a bit of a lie too (General Chat) - SCC 28, Dec 19, 14:10:01
- He could be making it all up and nobody would the wiser except other... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 19, 13:48:07
  - he waffled on about how if all the "spaces" were removed from inside particles (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 13:52:04
    - I haven't watched it yet. Plussed it, saved up for when Mrs B is out tomorrow night. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 13:55:37
      - despite 100% of it going right over my head i quite enjoyed it (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:01:48
      - have you done his Why E=MC(little 2) yet? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 14:00:10
        
        Yes, read it on holiday. For about a month afterwards I was able to explain relativity to (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 14:04:53
        
        yes, that's my understanding of it now too... (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 14:14:28
    - I saw that bit, when he was saying all earths particle could fit inside... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 19, 13:55:30
      - i think that's exactly it dubbs, he's such a really lovely bloke he can say anything and p (General Chat) - Tombs, Dec 19, 13:57:12
  - YOOOOOOOOOOOO DUBS (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Dec 19, 13:49:20
    - Ahoy there Col. Finished for Christmas? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 19, 13:49:41
      - nah, just done 3 nights, then in days Thur and fri, offwkend and in Boxing day, u? (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Dec 19, 13:50:43
        
        In all this week then off until the New Year. :D (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 19, 13:51:54
        
        Have a gud 'un.. (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Dec 19, 13:53:10
        
        Yep, you too!! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 19, 13:53:49
  - *be (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Dec 19, 13:48:19
- I like him. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 13:47:15
  - My son's doing Physics at Uni and wants his job. (n/m) (General Chat) - colincanary, Dec 19, 13:48:14
- I understand quantum physics less now than I did before I watched his program (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Dec 19, 13:43:58
  - i thought it was a bit patchy (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 13:53:55
- That should bring some crevice dodgers out to play (n/m) (General Chat) - Barmaid, Dec 19, 13:43:05

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