Gravity Waves Online Course 23
bgitac writes "CalTech has provided an online course on gravity waves by Kip Thorne. The course is described as "an introduction to all major aspects of gravitational waves." Prerequisites for this course are an understanding of classical mechanics. Weekly exercises and solutions as well as DVD quality videos of lectures are provided. The first couple lectures actually seem to be somewhat comprehendable!"
Must read more carefully... (Score:2, Funny)
Gravity waives online course
Re:Must read more carefully... (Score:1)
gravity at a press conference (Score:5, Funny)
"Look, I think it's safe to say that without me there would be no online courses. All Gore didn't invent everything."
Gravity went on to reassure everyone that the recent theft of the Principia did not affect it.
"Despite what you may have heard about things not existing until they are measured, etc, it is not the case that physical laws come into being only after they were described. I think that you will find through observation that I was alive and well before Mr. Newton's little revelatory experience."
Gravity also denied, again, that there was an assault and battery charge against him by Newton's heirs for the apple incident.
A test of CalTech's net? (Score:1)
rimshot (Score:3, Funny)
Online courses (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Online courses (Score:3, Funny)
I think that any more would probably just be confusing.
Re:gasdfl;km (Score:1, Offtopic)
...And... (Score:2)
that means what, exactly,in laymans terms? Or are you just trying to prove you know something that means little to the rest of us?
Not that I'm trolling or attempting some flamebait, but it's nice to know what one is talking about.
Re:...And... (Score:1)
Where did you see this? If you give a little context, maybe someone will be able to help you.
Re:...And... (Score:1)
R is related to the metric. In layman's terms, the metric is related to how space and time bend. Picture a sheet of elastic graph paper. Now picture deforming it. R tells you how the lines on the graph paper change from one region to another.
Unfortunately, I do not know what the author of the top level parent was talking about.
Re:...And... (Score:2)
Me neither....
Surely you must know by know... (Score:4, Insightful)
They ought to be comprehandable... (Score:5, Informative)
I would suspect this is the case. Prof. Thorne has written an excellent book titled "Black Holes and Time Warps", which is an explanation of the theory and science of both, and thier history, and this book (1/5" thick) was understandble completely by me, and I've only taken 1 college physics course. Kip Thorne, like Richard Feynman, seems to have a knack for explaining complicated things very well.
a free book on general relativity (Score:5, Informative)
nice (Score:1)
Too bad I don't belive in anything that's a theory.
If you need something more basic (Score:5, Informative)
Note: The "Simple Nature" textbook on the same site covers the same material as "Light And Matter" with a little more depth added. So it might be the choice of many slashdotters.
Gravity waves != gravitational waves (Score:1)