Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics

by Andrew H. Thomas

Albert Einstein said: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction."

there was no experiment you could possibly perform which could detect if you were stationary or moving at a constant velocity.

In 1665, a 22-year-old Isaac Newton wondered if the force which pulled apples from a tree was the same force which held planets in orbit.

In a classic example of the misuse of units, the crash investigators found that the cause of the error was due to the flight system software calculating thrust in metric units, while the ground crew were entering thruster data using imperial measures.

I find the imperial unit system to be very complicated.

What determines the nature of the force which we interpret as gravity? Clearly, it is anything which modifies our straight line through space — anything which modifies the geometry of space. In other words, gravity is the curvature of space.

If a loved one dies, you might take some comfort from the knowledge that this period of time in which your loved one is dead has, in fact, no greater reality than the time when your loved one was alive. According to physics, it is just as valid to consider your loved one as alive as it is to consider them dead!

Mixed feelings about this.