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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 09:31 am
I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for my flight back to LA after a job interview in Michigan, and I just took a look at the most recent xkcd comic. I'm torn: we just covered special relativity last week in my intro physics class, and I emphasized the fact that observers who move relative to one another may disagree on whether events are simultaneous or not. So this comic is remarkably timely and applicable: ideal to share with my class! (We talked about the twin paradox, too, so the mouse-over text is relevant as well.) Nevertheless, I think perhaps I'll opt against.

(If you're interested, you can take a look at the space-time diagrams handout that I wrote for the class. It's a bit terse, especially for me, but I think it covers the essentials. It's not really meant to stand on its own without lecture and class discussion, but it ought to be comprehensible at least to people who have encountered the subject before.)
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 06:49 pm (UTC)
borderline...but...probably best to not...

Hey it would be better then the time a certail Mudd Econ Prof was showing us web-pages and then showed his history drop donw list and there was www.gangbang.com...
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 07:25 pm (UTC)
That's... that's... just astounding. Don't do that.
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 10:52 pm (UTC)
wouldn't have been so bad, except he noticed it and then brought attention to it by trying to explain it away.