• D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    Ok, firstly I’m not very smart. Secondly I don’t understand the meme AND don’t understand the explanations in the comments.
    Can anyone actually dumb it down so a stupid person like me can understand it?

    • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      I suggest watching these videos from Float Head Physics. They’re just some of the clearest and most intuitive explanations of relativity I’ve seen, and any other explanation I give here would just be me attempting to paraphrase him.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkv8sW6y3sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vitf8YaVXhc

      He has a whole playlist on special relativity which is really insightful if you want an even deeper dive, as well as playlists on other things like general relativity and quantum mechanics, all of which are based on building intuition instead of starting with complicated math equations.