Comments on: Relativity, in words of four letters or less

Relativity, in words of four letters or less

Mwongozi — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:37:32 -0800

Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity in words of four letters or less

By: oog

oog — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:43:55 -0800

now that's just cool.

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:44:09 -0800

yeah, lots and lots and lots of words of four letters or less.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:47:46 -0800

science predicts that one day we'll be able to explain it just three

By: Peter H

Peter H — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:49:10 -0800

that's with just three gaa, i fucked up my joke!

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:49:19 -0800

Well done. Only in one spot or two can you tell that he had a hard time with the task. This can show that even a guy that blew your mind in the past can be put in a way that you can get!

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:50:01 -0800

This beats the way my physics teacher explained it, which was, "just give up, you'll never understand."

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:54:37 -0800

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." -- Old Al

By: woil

woil — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:54:47 -0800

Well technicall, it's four letters or fewer, as you can't have a fractional letter. But then again fewer has greater than four letters, so you're screwed either way.

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:56:01 -0800

fantastic post. thanks bunches. this theory is something i've always struggled with in those damn astro classes; it's nice to have it explained to you by someone who knows you're not particularly interested in the details, just the gist. [this is freaking good]

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:58:02 -0800

But Herb -- what? No, Herb isn't his real name, but I like to call him that

Hah.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:02:30 -0800

[this is very good]

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:03:40 -0800

[this is exaggeratedly superexcellent]

By: VelvetHellvis

VelvetHellvis — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:05:42 -0800

Hey, those weren't the kind of four-letter words I was hoping to read. It was good even without curse words. The F-word would have made it so colorful though...

By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:16:00 -0800

Do we have a rule of some kind that says that when you talk back to a post that uses some kind of neat idea with how it says what it says, your own post has to be done the same way?

By: quin

quin — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:49:07 -0800

this is really neat, and wanderingmind: nice.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:57:06 -0800

Let's see him try it with eighteen letter words. That would impress me. Very nice link. And very well done.

By: notsnot

notsnot — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:34:29 -0800

woil: Well technically, it's four letters or fewer, as you can't have a fractional letter. But then again fewer has greater than four letters, so you're screwed either way. "four words or not as many"?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:47:47 -0800

"Letters" is a word with more than four letters, so I don't think that matters.

By: jjg

jjg — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:10:07 -0800

What, no post with a link or note of Made Apex Dean yet?

By: krazykity16

krazykity16 — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:42:08 -0800

This is very good post. I can't not type like this. My mind is now jelly. All your fault. [but good post still]

By: LowDog

LowDog — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:59:48 -0800

I don't believe it - relatively speaking of course.

By: wobh

wobh — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:08:28 -0800

Heh, now I'm thinking about how it would have been if Else Holmelund Minarik had written this as one of her Little Bear books (with Maurice Sendak illustrations, of course).

By: Dunvegan

Dunvegan — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:21:33 -0800

Just plain elegant. A brilliant use of a simple sub-set of Basic English and other simple words. As Churchill said: "The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all." (As a friend once said, she then breaking out in a hearty laugh, "That old drunk... he probably couldn't remember the LONG words!") If the only rap against this tour de force is that the title does not conform to the "four letter or less" criteria, how about this: ORIGINAL: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less NEW: The Tale of Why Al's Idea That "E" Is Dead On The Same As "MC²."
And Told So That Each Word Is Of Four or Less Jots In Each Type Unit.

By: Dunvegan

Dunvegan — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:40:36 -0800

Oh. Must fix that. Here: The Tale of Why Al's Idea That "E" Is Dead On The Same As "MC2" Is True.
And Told So That Each Word Is Of Four Or Less Jots In Each Type Unit. So be it. Ack.

By: pheideaux

pheideaux — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:26:28 -0800

or: Why Old Al's Idea of E and MC2 is True: As Told in an Odd Way.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:51:06 -0800

Peep Al E's "E" and "MC" fly dope done home like, yo!

By: BlueWolf

BlueWolf — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:14:00 -0800

Einstein himself wrote a fairly understandable book about relativity, which I read sometime in grade school.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:38:56 -0800

This idea of Al's has had its day. Now, if you ask a man in a lab coat what of the big area away from the ball we live on, he will tell you that the main idea now is tiny rope, tiny rope all over, and also that many key bits of Al's idea are made fun of by the ever more pat idea of lots and lots of tiny tiny bits.

By: Dunvegan

Dunvegan — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:09:10 -0800

dhartung, I feel...I don't know...somewhat strung along by that theory...but, after some thought, perhaps it's a super theory, after all.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:13:03 -0800

I always thought E=mc^2 was `leet speek anyways.