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Funny comic strip about the touring test from one of my favourite
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Whatever you do, talking to other people will be the most important part
of your work.
What would be the best scientist of the world if he cannot tell others what he thinks?

Today I heard a talk about gestural communication. That is equally important
we must assume.

So how do we master good conversation abilities? I think just by practice.
Next time you chat with friends, you’ll notice their body language.

I’d like to cite George Carlin, who is likely
to put an end on ALL conspiracy theories, with the simple
words he says in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2EYPvQDqE during a boring TV show.

” You have to give them credit,
they’re out in the open, they’re not even
trying to conceive it anymore.
They’re openly driving the bus, and we’re
all in the back.
You don’t need a formal conspiracy
when interests CONVERGE, these people
went to the same universities, have been
on the same board of directors they’re on
the same country clubs they have likely interests
they don’t need to call a meeting, they
know what it’s good for them, and they’re
getting it, and there used to be seven oil
companies and there’s now three, there will soon
be two, the things that matter in this country
have been reduced in choice to have two
political parties, there are a few insurance
company there’s six or seven information thing but
if you want a BAGEL you have 23 flavours cause you
have the illusion, you have the illusion of choice,
there’s no choice on the things that are important there’s
only the illusion of choice. “

To all my mates interested in Physics:
I was reading some fundamentals of relativity,

It’s interesting how everything started by Maxwell equations, and how classical mechanics
is not invariant for Lorentz transformations.
The thing that struck me is that the problem had three possible solutions:
1) Electromagnetism is only Lorentz-invariant and mechanics is only invariant on Galilean transformations.
2) The laws of physics must be Lorentz-invariant so mechanics needs to be fixed.
3) The laws of physics must be Galilean invariant so electromagnetism had to be fixed.

It’s so strange that Einstein succeeded in (2), because even today, electromagnetic and mechanical events
are not unified, we have “matter waves” and “light waves” and they’re treated separately (one follows
Dirac equation, the other, Maxwell equations).

I am so impressed at how good is the solution to inertial mass and gravitational mass unification, so that
inertial mass curves spacetime, we can only move on geodesic of spacetime, so we feel a “force” of gravity. Yet I think the mass-energy equivalence has got a lot more to tell us, as we constantly change
between them with a conversion factor.. we then go on and treat them differently.

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