Home Is Where The Wind Blows

An immortal gem by David Canzi (12-Jan-2004)

Mathematics-free Explanation
In article <97uMb.2184$I31.1160@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
Androcles <jp006f9750@antispamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>I am but a simple man, and sorely perplexed by these deliberations, for it
>is truly astounding that these assertions be true. Explain this wondrous
>concept without mathematics, but gently, for it shall surely confound me and
>cause my head to ache.

You would never ask for a mathematics-free explanation of how far a
dropped object falls in "t" seconds.  Why ask for a mathematics-free
explanation of a relativity problem?

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David Canzi -- dmcanzi+4ax7zn@remulak.uwaterloo.ca
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