fandomhigh | Physics, Monday, Class #7, Period 4

"Good afternoon, everyone," she greeted the class, glancing up as they entered. "I hope you all enjoyed your week off and have recovered from Homecoming sufficiently to be fully mortified when your parents show up this weekend, because yes, we live to torture you."

Sam grinned. Obviously they didn't (as far as she knew), but the timing was a bit coincidental. "In what is continuing to be an incredibly brief overview of physics, today we'll start discussing relativity. As you can see from the handouts, sometimes the umbrella of relativity also encompasses the theory of Galilean, or Newtonian Relativity, depending on who you're talking to, but in most cases, people who discuss relativity really mean either Albert Einstein's theories of special relativity or general relativity."

"So, why do we care? At least in this time period," and here, she may have smirked just a tiny bit, "we believe that relativity is the key to figuring out not just time travel, time dilations, and gravitational time delay, we also believe that it's the key to interstellar travel at faster than light speeds."

Another grin. "Trust me, this is a good thing. Plus, I have my suspicions that it's part of what makes Fandom possible."

"I realize that I've thrown a lot of material at you in a very short time, so I'll give you the rest of the period to process the information, to look through the handouts, to ask questions, and to work on your final projects if you want."

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Sokka took very detailed notes while leaning his chair back in a very dangerous way.

When he eventually fell over and banged his head, instead of yelling "OW!" and making a big show out of being hurt, he instead started snickering. He quickly sketched out something (http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/back-to-the-future/flux-capacitor-schematic.jpg) in his notepad and, still snickering, held it up and shouted "ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS!!!"

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Rodney narrowed his eyes. He'd always suspected that the teachers had it in for them. Now, he knew.

This was over Romeo's head, and he was exhausted anyhow. He tried to listen, but his eyes kept drifting shut.

Chad...wasn't going to worry about the 'making sense' detail of some of this stuff at the moment. He was just going to try to get as much as he could written down and try to figure it out later.

Naomi took down detailed notes.

Rikku was taking detailed notes. And geeking out. And probably bouncing.

Exhausted by his weekend that was really a week and a half, John felt relativity more than he listed to the lecture on it. Which might explain the dazed look in his eyes.

Which I can't answer until I get home from work, but feel free to answer or discuss implications with each other or the TAs

Work with your buddy

That relativity thing was going to give him a headache, he was sure of it. So working on the project seemed a good distraction.

"Are we still working together?" Romeo asked.

"I thought so," he paused. "Aren't we?" Well, technically, they hadn't really done a whole lot of actual work, but... There was time?

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Sokka looked around for Hoshi. He had a pretty detailed design for a huge cast-iron steam-powered monstrosity capable of chucking a dozen pumpkins at once.

A row of calculations down the side declared that the range would be approximately 13 inches, but those were crossed out. A second set of calculations put the range at approximately 34 miles. Those were also crossed out, and a third set of calculations completely failed to come to any result whatsoever.

Ugh. Projects. Chad was feeling relatively hopeless at this one at the moment, and looked around for Tosh, hoping she might be a little more on the ball.

If/when they ping in

Rodney is here for all your relativity needs.

Bumblebee was there and ready for any questions.

No world ending here

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