Hardest modern concept to explain?

**7heDubz** · 03-20-2014, 10:34 PM

xD explainable, not necessarily understandable

**Froge** · 03-21-2014, 12:05 AM

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

**Streetboat** · 03-21-2014, 07:02 AM

(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?

**FlawlessHappiness** · 03-21-2014, 08:02 AM

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 Smile

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.

**BAndrew** · 03-21-2014, 11:15 AM

(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

**eliasfrost** · 03-21-2014, 11:51 AM

How cause and effect have taken over the role of fate.

Or perhaps black holes and dark matter.

**Streetboat** · 03-21-2014, 05:23 PM

(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

**7heDubz** · 03-21-2014, 09:52 PM

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.

**Focalize** · 03-22-2014, 02:58 AM

Subspaces and spanning and linear mappings

**Slanderous** · 03-22-2014, 11:13 PM

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? Tongue