Max Tegmark and Flora Lopis have been working hard on teaching the 8.033 course on relativity at MIT. They publish it today on the arXiv saying:<\/p>\n
“To maximize the learning experience from this technical review, the reader is encouraged to sing it to the tune of Yellow Submarine, with italicized lines going like the chorus…”<\/em><\/p>\n Romer measured the speed of light, We jump to 1905. Einstein\u2019s postulates imply With the Lorentz transformation, Soon physicists had a proclivity
\nand something basic just wasn\u2019t right.
\nbecause Michaelson and Morley
\nshowed that aether fit data poorly.<\/p>\n
\nIn Einstein\u2019s brain, ideas thrive:
\n\u201cThe laws of nature must be the same
\nin every inertial frame\u201d
\nWe all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity.
\nYes we all believe in relativity, 8.033, relativity.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\nthat planes are shorter when they fly.
\nTheir clocks are slowed by time dilation,
\nand look warped from aberration.
\nCos theta-prime is cos theta minus beta … over one minus beta cos theta.
\nYes we all believe in relativity, 8.033, relativity.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n
\nwe calculate the relation
\nbetween Chris\u2019s and Zoe\u2019s frame,
\nbut all invariants, they are the same.
\nLike B dot E and B-squared minus E-squared,
\n… and the rest mass squared which is E-squared minus p-squared.
\n<\/em>\u2019cos we all believe in relativity, 8.033, relativity<\/em><\/p>\n
\nfor using relativity.
\nBut nukes made us all scared
\nbecause E = mc2.
\nEverything is relative, even simultaneity,
\nand soon Einstein\u2019s become a de facto physics deity.
\n\u2019cos we all believe in relativity, 8.033, relativity. <\/em><\/p>\n