Saturday, January 29, 2011

Connection: Probability

           After talking a great amount about Einstein because of the book we just read, in class, we decided to take a look at a few videos about challenging the adjacent possible. Along with that we checked out a video on entropy. The video reminded me a lot of what we are doing in math, which is mostly on probability.
          The video seemed to discuss a lot of what Einstein discovered in his time. For example, the man in the informational video explained how his i-pod headphones always seem to go into his pocket in a neat pile, but always come out in a different configuration. This is because there are millions of possibilities that the headphones could end up in, but only one of those ways is being completely neat.
           Already knowing the mathematics behind this made it clearer what the man in the video was explaining. It made me realize just how I was jumping into the mind of Einstein and exploring the ideas he created of probability.

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