SPACE, TIME AND HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE


NAVIGATION

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This activity is aimed at KS4 and above and gives a gentle introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity (special and general) by discussing the nature of light and the implications that a constant speed of light has for an observer in the universe.

 
Do the laws of physics change when we move - what happens when we consider light?

The talk uses multi-media simulations along with hands-on demonstrations and is based around the realities, or otherwise, of constructing a time machine and asks whether it is possible to

  • See into the past
  • See into the future
  • Travel into the past
  • Travel into the future

On the journey there will be a discussion of time of travel for light, space flight, cosmology, curved space and how to use it to make = 2 exactly (much easier to remember!) and wormholes.

We ask "What would happen in a Universe where time travel was a practical technology?"

 
Mass tells space how to curve and the curvature tells mass how to move

Need an application - GPS uses relativity all the time!

 
GPS needs corrections from both special and general relativity

 

Contact:

chris@whylearnthat.co.uk

Tel: 01663 749785

 

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