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Monday, 18 November 2019
Pigeons in space-time at Stonebridge City Farm
The way these pigeons were making the netting sag at the farm in Nottingham reminded me of the way that masses cause space-time to curve in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Fortunately none of them was heavy enough to cause a black hole.
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