WEEKLY INFORMAL CHALLENGE 175: "Relativity"

[1designguy]

Weekly Informal Challenge number 175 is "Relativity":

This week we offer the Weekly Informal Challenge"Relativity". This theme should require putting on our "thinking caps" as we explore finding subjects that display this theory while keeping it fresh. It took Einstein ten years to work out the math after coming up with this theory so I'm adding this a day early to give you a longer weekend This should play off of the August "Connections" Challenge nicely. Remember (most of all) HAVE FUN.

What is relativity? Succinctly put, it is the notion that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. We here on Earth obey the same laws of light and gravity as someone in a far off corner of the universe.

The universality of physics means that history is provincial. Different viewers will see the timing and spacing of events differently. What for us is a million years may just be a blink of an eye for someone flying in a high speed rocket or falling into a black hole.

It's all relative.

Perhaps if we simplify it a little more it is about a matter of perspective. While the laws remain the same, we all see it from unique perspectives...



(link to guidelines if needed)

[jdonnelly]

Wow! That's a challenge if there ever was one! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Although at this point I haven't a single clue as how to approach it.......

*putting on thinking cap*

Janet

[1designguy]

I'm still scratching my head too

[bdean]

I'm hoping it will take me less than 10 years to figure this one out.

[bdean]

I think I got it!



It's all relative! And involves space and time, of course!

(Not sure how to do a "thumbnail" and an image URL so here's the link http://www.pbase.com/bdean/image/151853734 Feel free to PM how to do this as I'd love to know!)

[dewildean]

pffff .... think think ...

[norm4fun]

relativy effect of observing the sun.

http://www.pbase.com/image/151862978

[norm4fun]

Something is wrong.... my time has stopped with 2 balls in the air!

I think I got it!



It's all relative! And involves space and time, of course!

(Not sure how to do a "thumbnail" and an image URL so here's the link http://www.pbase.com/bdean/image/151853734 Feel free to PM how to do this as I'd love to know!)

[amoxtli]

Space and Time take on different qualities in the Fog.

[kstuebin]

There's a loose association with time or lack of time or it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. :)

[jdonnelly]

After doing several Google searches on the subject, I realized that it was so far out that I would be perpetually lost trying to understand it. But I did come across these things everywhere I looked:
1. Mass
2. Acceleration, or speed
3. Light
4. Time

So here's my interpretaion of Relativity...



Janet

[1designguy]

The concept that a point of perspective impacts and/or distorts ones perception of something(s) relatively equal and in the case connected (17 in the monthly challenge)

[janicecd]

Relativity - this was too hard!!

[timbg]

Here is my entry:
http://www.pbase.com/timbg/image/151891558

[sueymarky]

http://www.pbase.com/sueymarky/image/151893273/original

Regards,
sue anne