If it was easy the whole universe would do it.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 19:46, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

This year seems to be the one where they point out that the universe is just weird, the best theories we have are completely unintuitive, and the simplifications are unsolvable (fluid dynamics...)
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 17 Oct 2010, 19:54, Reply)

The universe is weird!
I could have told them that.
( girlinthehole, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 19:57, Reply)

I got (almost) all I know about relativity from
www.einstein-online.info/home-eo/elementary and a kid's book about Einstein. edit: which ^she's read. edit: www.amazon.co.uk/Albert-Einstein-Inflatable-Universe-Famous/dp/0439992168/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287341947&sr=8-2
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sun 17 Oct 2010, 19:57, Reply)

I can do most of the inertial stuff
(non-accelerating), or at least, the problem then is generally the lack of maths over the hols. The accelerating stuff just makes no sense at the moment (getting completely different answers (by a factor of 1000) to the same problem, by doing it 2 ways that should be equally valid...)

EDIT: I read the Uncle Albert series as a kid (Time, Space and Uncle Albert, Black Holes and Uncle Albert, and Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest). They really should be required reading at year 5/6ish
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sun 17 Oct 2010, 20:02, Reply)