17 April 2011

garden hose world

It was sunny when I woke up.
Then it started to rain a few minutes later.
Then rain turned into snow. The kind of really fluffy snow that you hope to see on Christmas day.

Why is it snowing in aprrrrril "orz

Anyways, in the span of the weather changes, I've managed to finally cross off The Elegant Universe from my reading list. (clip of the author Brian Greene's appearance on Big Bang Theory! ;D) The analogies that he uses to explain the physics concepts sans math are actually really easy to understand, my favourite being the landlord of the warehouse basement and the quantification of energy. Though it gets significantly harder to understand once more dimensions are introduced @_@"

The extra 6-8 dimensions are curled up into spaces like this ;D The topology of these shapes, such as how it's folded and how many "holes" there are, determine the properties of the elementary particles.


Very fancy looking, no?

1 comment:

H-siao said...

the weather is...quite bizzare