Articles Tagged with Special Relativity

Relativity and the telegraph

Published on January 12, 2021January 8, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Help and hindrance

We consider how new technology can make it harder to understand new science.

Rules, principles and recipes (II)

Published on June 23, 2020June 22, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The scientific way

Scientific rules, like all rules, must be applied intelligently.

Why teach errors?

Published on October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Outdated, still in use

We look for reasons to teach things that aren’t true.

Libraries and long walks

Published on July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

An unnecessary problem

Scientists sometimes set themselves problems just to learn.