John's Special Relativity
Polarizers and special relativity: they're all the same.
Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode: 500: All the Nerds in the Room
John: A feeling I would get when I used to tell… this is going to sound nerdy…
Casey: NO!
John: The feeling you get when you tell people about special relativity.
Marco: Have you done this a lot??
Casey: Yeah, this is just something you do from time to time?
John: When I was a kid I used to do it, right, so here’s the thing
Casey: This is the least surprising thing you’ve ever said
John: This polarizer thing, if you haven’t ever seen this before, it will give you a similar feeling of learning about special relativity. Special relativity when you explain it to people, or when you first learn it, in my case when you’re a kid or whatever, like the ideas behind it, like wait a second. Everyone in the world has known that this is true, and no one has told me??
