Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Relativity Visualized: An Intuitive Way of Picturing Relativity

Stage B , Saturday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM


Have you ever tried to understand Special Relativity, but not quite grasped it? Have you wondered why you can't go faster than light? What makes time go slow? What makes space shrink? Lewis Carroll Epstein tells some stories that help make sense of puzzling concepts of Relativity.

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About the Maker(s)

Professor Epstein
Lewis Carroll Epstein is a popular physics lecturer and author. He worked on the Saturn Rocket Project and helped develop the now forgotten original very large space telescope intended to be orbited by a Saturn rocket. He was a science writer for the New Orleans Express and has authored two popular physics books: Thinking Physics and Relativity Visualized.