{"id":10436,"date":"2011-12-03T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/12\/03\/the-manga-guide-to-relativity\/"},"modified":"2011-12-03T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T09:10:15","slug":"the-manga-guide-to-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/the-manga-guide-to-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manga Guide to Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5b55c07e3a41d403224d77b06f8817e6-manga_guide_to_relativity.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-5b55c07e3a41d403224d77b06f8817e6-manga_guide_to_relativity.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1593272723\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=1593272723\">The Manga Guide to Relativity <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1593272723&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> might come in especially handy these days, what with faster than light neutrinos, Republican candidates and other science-defying entities zooming around.  And, it is one of those Japanese anime things, which makes it cool.  This is a story set in Tagai Academy summer&#8217;s school session, where the &#8220;plucky&#8221; Miss Uraga teaches the kids relativity.<\/p>\n<p>When you have finished reading this book you will be able to calculate the effects of time dilation, explain the Twin Paradox, understand Einsteinium famous E=mc<sup>2<\/sup> and get a job at CERN.<\/p>\n<p>Hideo Nitta, is in the Department of Physics at Tokyo Gakugei University, and an expert in physics and physics education.  Masafumi Yamamoto is an applied physicist from Hokkaido University, and I&#8217;m pretty sure Keita Takatsu is the artist.  This is a little like Pokemon except only things that are possible happen in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The The Manga Guide to Relativity might come in especially handy these days, what with faster than light neutrinos, Republican candidates and other science-defying entities zooming around. And, it is one of those Japanese anime things, which makes it cool. This is a story set in Tagai Academy summer&#8217;s school session, where the &#8220;plucky&#8221; Miss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/the-manga-guide-to-relativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Manga Guide to Relativity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[686,40,3998,1480,4431,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Ik","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}