(You can read other stories in this series here and here.) The rocket boys treated questions from us soft-science types with the tenderness you’d show the simple son at the Seder table. I could practically hear their brains cracking as Donovan and Ozorof searched for words of one syllable to explain relativity to me, and I did finally manage to get a picture in my head of—just the concept of—the elasticity of time. Such hideous equations expressing something lovely as that!
Mishpocheh in Space
Mishpocheh in Space
Mishpocheh in Space
(You can read other stories in this series here and here.) The rocket boys treated questions from us soft-science types with the tenderness you’d show the simple son at the Seder table. I could practically hear their brains cracking as Donovan and Ozorof searched for words of one syllable to explain relativity to me, and I did finally manage to get a picture in my head of—just the concept of—the elasticity of time. Such hideous equations expressing something lovely as that!