{"id":6056,"date":"2012-02-28T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T11:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/28\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-6\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T11:23:46","slug":"how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/28\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-6\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: The Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m home with The Pip today, so no extended typing for me, but I pre[ared for this by typing something up ahead of time, and getting <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/02\/28\/the-big-idea-chad-orzel-2\/\">John Scalzi to post it for me<\/a>, as part of his Big Idea series:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a way, a book about Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity is uniquely suited to a series about Big Ideas. Relativity, at its heart, is a theory built on a single Big Idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The laws of physics do not depend on how you&#8217;re moving.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For all its fearsome reputation, everything stems from that single,simple idea. Whether you&#8217;re moving or standing still, floating in space or on the surface of a planet, you will see the laws of physics work in exactly the same way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bunch more, but you can read it over at John&#8217;s blog. And if you&#8217;re sold on that, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/relativity_info.html\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog <\/cite><\/a> is released today, so you can get it immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m home with The Pip today, so no extended typing for me, but I pre[ared for this by typing something up ahead of time, and getting John Scalzi to post it for me, as part of his Big Idea series: In a way, a book about Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity is uniquely suited to a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/28\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: The Big Idea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,142,7,51,37,132,141,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-relativity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}