In Physics today, Bickers lectured on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. He ended class with this thought. Suppose you wanted to visit the Andromeda galaxy, and let’s say it’s 20 million light years away. You would say, no way, it’s impossible. Anything that has mass must always move at a speed less than that of the speed of light. That’s true, but the distance of 20 million light years is from the perspective of Earth.
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I forget where I read this, but I’ve been wanting to blog about it since last Thursday, when I first started researching about Ruby on Rails. It’s an awesome language, though I haven’t had a chance to code in it yet. It’s fairly new, and version 1.1 was only recently released. I emailed my computer science professor about it, and he said he’s never heard of it. Why isn’t it more well-known?
