“Wow,” I said to Merle, as we walked away. “That was unbelievable.” I was referring to both the basketball game, and Merle’s rescue of the child’s ball. “Cute kid, isn’t she?” said Merle. “Very cute kid,” I said. “What language was that?” “I don’t know yet,” said Merle. Merle told me what the language was, […]
I looked east to see mountain ranges, now clearly in view, and I realized that we were beginning to descend. By now, our ship was also in the shadow of the earth, as night fell completely on the landscape below. The patches of desert-like terrain were quickly rolling away to our west, and directly below […]
One of the great mysteries of Special Relativity is the Second Postulate, which is the idea that the speed of light c is a constant, independent of the relative motion of the source. This constancy is why Albert Einstein preferred to think of his theory as a theory of invariance, rather than a theory of […]