Monday, January 23, 2006

Space-Time Fabric


Space Time Fabric
Originally uploaded by jjfbaltzell.
Jonathan did this in his "free time" today (we usually do formal science on Tuesdays and Thursdays). He asked to take a break from his history reading and sat at the kitchen table working on these.


The first is his rendition of Einstein's model of gravity. Here, J depicts the moon caught in a ripple of the space-time continuum caused by the presence of the earth.


The second is a drawing of Ptolemy's geo-centric model of the universe.

Pre-Copernican Universe