Mugwump's Fish World

The Thanksgiving Holiday, one of my biggest IT projects every year.  Just started a massive database purge and re-build that takes almost the entire 4 day weekend to complete.

Dennis

Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

Quote from: PaulineMi on November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

+1.... |^|

think of the bright side....all the tunes that you can listen to.... 8)

Quote from: Mugwump on November 25, 2015, 06:23:30 PM

Quote from: PaulineMi on November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

+1.... |^|

think of the bright side....all the tunes that you can listen to.... 8)

+1

Quote from: PaulineMi on November 25, 2015, 06:22:06 PM
Well you can be thankful when the job is successfully completed.   |^|

That's very true.  It can be a bit stressful.....

Quote from: Mugwump on November 25, 2015, 06:23:30 PM
think of the bright side....all the tunes that you can listen to.... 8)

Good point Jon.  I think I'm going to take a break from the Who cassettes and listen to some Stones vinyl. 

Dennis

Didn't spin up the first album last night.  This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of papers laying out Albert Einstein?s theory of relativity and PBS had hours of programming on Nova.....  great stuff.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/how-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-changed-the-world/ (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/how-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-changed-the-world/)

http://video.pbs.org/video/2035153862/ (http://video.pbs.org/video/2035153862/)

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365615918/ (http://video.pbs.org/video/2365615918/)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/einstein-big-idea.html (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/einstein-big-idea.html)

Dennis

Fun.
I missed that.

When I was a kid (born in '53) my Mom told me there were only a handful of people who understood relativity. I think that was an idea probably left over from the 1930's.
I'm rather visual in my understanding of the world and took it as a kind of challenge. I remember watching a kid's show on it where they were re-enacting some of Einstein's thought experiments, like being on a train going near the speed of light. I definitely had a not bad understanding of it by the time I was taking HS physics and calculus.

Relativity is not intrinsically difficult. The ideas are somewhat obscure but with the right concepts, it can be quite understandable. There are probably comic books that do a decent job of it now.