by: Thomas Villegas"Many of the events in most of the popular fables, and stories can be explained by physics. Just take a look at some of these:
the rabit lost the race 2 the turtle, because what seemed like a 2 min break was actually 1 hour.
That's relativity.
the grasshopper wasn't able to prepare 4 the winter, because of the weather's shear unpredictability.
That's chaos theory.
humpty dumpty fell off d wall, because his center of gravity was not properly aligned. That's equilibrium and elasticity.
2 of the 3 little pigs' houses got blown away, because they didn't have enough knowledge about tension, compression, air resistance, etc.
That's mechanics.
Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were both awakened because an external force was acted on them by prince charming.
That's Newton's first law of motion.
See...
Physicist in the past knew how hard it was to teach physics so they used stories to help us out."
The development of physics has answered many questions of early philosophers, but has also raised new questions. Study of the philosophical issues surrounding physics, the philosophy of physics, involves issues such as the nature of space and time, determinism, and metaphysical outlooks such as empiricism, naturalism and realism. I am a college sophomore with a dual major in Physics and Mathematics @ University of California, Santa Barbara. By the way, i came across these excellent physics flash cards. Its also a great initiative by the FunnelBrain team. Amazing!!
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