Dad: Damn son, itโs about time!
It feels like only yesterday.
We all know Einstein's theory of general relativity was both a spectacular achievement and still a good model of the universe today, but what was the lead up to this development? Were ideas like the Lorentz transformation of special relativity completely out of thin air or based upon previous work? And continuing that, to what extent was general relativity building off of previous theories?
Source: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/22/science-eu-breaking-light-speed_8695154.html
*at CERN!
I am a freshman in high school, and we are opening The Theory of Relativity in about 2 weeks.
My role is Adam, and coincidentally that is my actual name as well.
Do you have any advice or past experiences with this marvelous production? I'm having a lot of fun, and I can't wait to hear from you guys.
Edit: If you were in it please give your part, whether named, ensemble, tech, or even director.
Universal basic income has enthralled me recently. It seems like a perfect solution to inequality. The feasibility of such a program as well as the magnitude of money to be injected, however, are still under debate.
The best argument against the idea (that isn't grounded in emotionally motivated ideology, anyway) is inflation. The topic invariably comes up when introducing basic income to new people.
I'm going to proceed as if we agree that the problem (poverty, etc) UBI is attempting to solve is worth solving and that we're examining whether or not UBI 1) can work to solve that problem while 2) not totally destroying the existing economic system everyone relies on.
The starting point of this discussion is giving everyone $1000 a month. Andrew Yang is running for president on a platform of Universal basic income in that exact denomination. (You should [read up](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/87aa2z/iama_andrew_yang_candidate_for_president_of_the/" target="_blank) on him and develop your own thoughts).
I say 'starting point' because if $1000 a month turns out to not turn the United States upside down, there's no reason we shouldn't experiment with higher numbers.
Research on lottery winners found that, upon winning the equivalent of $200,000 2018 dollars, 75% of winners chose to stay in the workforce. If we consider people continuing to work while receiving UBI important, the $1000 a month starting point may prove to be substantially below the upper limit.
Anyway.
In order to give everyone in America $1000 a month, it would cost 3.9 trillion dollars a year.
Three point nine trillion.
Now that the shock is out of the way, let me point out some other numbers so that we can get a sense of scale. One of the things I learned getting a chemistry degree is the only thing that matters is the order of magnitude (how many zero's) and their relationship to other entities in the system.
In other word, we could be talking about a trillion dollars or a google dollars; what's important is the relative relationships those numbers have to each other.
1 year of UBI: 3.9x10^12
1 year of federal government tax income: [3.3x10^12](https://www.google.com/search?q=federal+government+revenue+2017&rlz=1C1CHBF_enU
Please please someone invent warp speed. Human history shouldn't end at us polluting earth so it's no more habitable. Do you have hope folks, that in future we will be able to tour around galaxy?
It seems like just yesterday.
