10-27-2004, 04:52 PM
No. Are they hard to translate into out perspective? - yes.
Special Relativity is not nearly as complicated as you infer. The math to actually work with it is fairly complex, but conceptually its easy to grasp.
Im not supposing I would have derived it myself, but once it was explained to me, even I was able to see it as an obvious conclusion of Maxwells Laws and light speed.
I admit I dont intuatively understand General Relativity like I understand Special Relativity, but I believe that is even more removed from the perception out sense work in.
I have great respect the better minds that that can either intuatively grasp more than me and for the better minds that are comfortable understanding in the abstract.
But I think it is a case of great minds being able to handle a larger perspective rather than a more complicated subject.
Special Relativity is not nearly as complicated as you infer. The math to actually work with it is fairly complex, but conceptually its easy to grasp.
Im not supposing I would have derived it myself, but once it was explained to me, even I was able to see it as an obvious conclusion of Maxwells Laws and light speed.
I admit I dont intuatively understand General Relativity like I understand Special Relativity, but I believe that is even more removed from the perception out sense work in.
I have great respect the better minds that that can either intuatively grasp more than me and for the better minds that are comfortable understanding in the abstract.
But I think it is a case of great minds being able to handle a larger perspective rather than a more complicated subject.