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jcl on May 5, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem unde...

Reminds me of the "Theory of Relativity in words of four letters or less" (which is also quite readable):

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html

patio11 on May 5, 2010 | [–]

This has greatly improved my understanding of relativity. Thank you.

elbenshira on May 5, 2010 | | [–]

I personally found Einstein's own book more intuitive, probably because he (understandably) goes into more detail than this short story:

http://books.google.com/books?id=gQ8LAAAAYAAJ&dq=special...

lionhearted on May 5, 2010 | [–]

That was amazing. Thank you.

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