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Natural Science Forum / Physics / Research / March 2005what do i need to learn physics
DEAR PHYSICS MY NAME IS BILLY.I HAVE DOWN SYNDROME.I LIKE PHYSICS.PHYSICS TELLS ME THINGS.I LIKE THINGS LIKE TIME.I WANT TO LEARN LOTS OF THINGS.I AM NOT AFRAID.AM I SMART ENOUGH? Dear Billy, There are lots of wonderful things you can learn. The smartest person in the world knows of things he cannot understand, so do not worry if some things are too hard. Just enjoy finding out and understanding what you can. All the best Ian Macmillan > DEAR PHYSICS > > MY NAME IS BILLY.I HAVE DOWN SYNDROME.I LIKE PHYSICS.PHYSICS TELLS ME > THINGS.I LIKE THINGS LIKE TIME.I WANT TO LEARN LOTS OF THINGS.I AM NOT > AFRAID.AM I SMART ENOUGH? > Dear Billy, > There are lots of wonderful things you can learn. The smartest person in the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > THINGS.I LIKE THINGS LIKE TIME.I WANT TO LEARN LOTS OF THINGS.I AM NOT > > AFRAID.AM I SMART ENOUGH? Also, go to www.howstuffworks.com and read thier articles "how time travel will work" along with the links in it to things like special relativity, photon teleportation (oversimplified) and how light works, down to the photon level. It's all very simple, (and there are some minor mistakes in it, too, but they can be overlooked for your purposes.) I love howstuffworks.com, it's my all-time favorite website and I always check to see if they have new physics articles (I'm waiting for "quantum black holes" to come out) and then I sort out those teensy mistakes they make by asking questions back here. > Dear Billy, > There are lots of wonderful things you can learn. The smartest person in the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > THINGS.I LIKE THINGS LIKE TIME.I WANT TO LEARN LOTS OF THINGS.I AM NOT > > AFRAID.AM I SMART ENOUGH? I'd reccommend "The Cartoon Guide to Physics" by Larry Gonick and Art Huffman. It started me off fine. Their description of general relativity near the end is rather deceptive, (although they make the Lorentz transforms for electromagnetic fields very easy to understand) but it gives you a good enough startoff to be able to correct the wrongs yourself. |
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