#895: Teaching Physics

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

Teacher: Understanding gravity: Space-time is like a rubber sheet. Massive objects distort the sheet, and-- Student: Wait. Student: They distort it because they're pulled down by... what? Teacher: <<sigh>> Teacher: Space-time is like this set of equations, for which any analogy must be an approximation. Student: BOOOOORING.

Space-time is like some simple and familiar system which is both intuitively understandable and precisely analogous, and if I were Richard Feynman I'd be able to come up with it.

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