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RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - 7heDubz - 03-20-2014
xD explainable, not necessarily understandable
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - Froge - 03-21-2014
don't know about you guys but I'd say it's astronomy
the greeks thought the sky was a sphere with stars "painted" on its surface, that the skies obeyed different physical laws than those on Earth, that eclipses were ill omens, etc.
It would be a huge shock to tell them about the vast distances between Earth and other solar systems, the sheer size of our galaxy, what actually causes eclipses, as well as other facts like the matter we are made up of (eg. carbon) were produced inside stars and stuff
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - Streetboat - 03-21-2014
(03-20-2014, 10:21 PM)WIWWM Wrote: How gravity effects time. Literally slows down time the more gravity is placed on it.i had no idea that happened. if that's actually true, that's the coolest shit ever. where did you learn that?
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - FlawlessHappiness - 03-21-2014
So far, all of the things should be ok-easy to understand and explain.
It would just be a shock to the person, yes, but everything is build with logic. So if the person is willing to try to understand it, it shouldn't be a problem.
I think the question got confused with "hardest modern concept to explain WHY".
Why, is a completely other question
Here, twerking and such would be relevant.I can't think about anything that someone with enough knowledge wouldn't be able to explain.
The thing about astronomy is that you could create a movie that explains it graphically, and bam, then it's explained.
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - BAndrew - 03-21-2014
(03-21-2014, 07:02 AM)Streetboat Wrote: i had no idea that happened. if that's actually true, that's the coolest shit ever. where did you learn that?
General Theory of Relativity
or to be more exact:
Gravitational time dilation
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - eliasfrost - 03-21-2014
How cause and effect have taken over the role of fate.
Or perhaps black holes and dark matter.
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - Streetboat - 03-21-2014
(03-21-2014, 11:15 AM)BAndrew Wrote:(03-21-2014, 07:02 AM)Streetboat Wrote: i had no idea that happened. if that's actually true, that's the coolest shit ever. where did you learn that?
General Theory of Relativity
or to be more exact:
Gravitational time dilation
thank u
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - 7heDubz - 03-21-2014
I learned it in science class last year. My teacher had gone off on a tangent and I made everyone shut up (they were freshman) while i listened to him. Cool shit.
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - Focalize - 03-22-2014
Subspaces and spanning and linear mappings
RE: Hardest modern concept to explain? - Slanderous - 03-22-2014
Extraterrestrial life. There is no way that we are alone in the space which hold bilions of planets, stars, and other objects.
Quick edit: maybe there is somewhere a planet which holds all of the Old Ones?
