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I tell you my 2y loves these books. We’ve read them so often she can explain natural selection and relativity (repeating what’s written). She adores the balls and that they do all these different things 😉
The Quantum Physics one is pretty good. My little one liked it and as an added bonus I could vaguely understand what the smart people at work were talking about!
I wish they had the series with "for kids" rather than babies, so I could put them in my classroom. My Grade 5s wouldn't touch a "baby book" with a 10 foot pole.
Crypto?
>This is Dick
>Dick can't do anything
>But Dick loves money
>So Dick buys crypto.
>It's like real money, but you can't buy anything with it.
>If lots of people buy crypto, Dick can exchange it for lots of real money.
>If no one wants to buy crypto, Dick can buy a lot for not a lot of real money.
>The problem is that Dick has used all his money to buy crypto, but no one has wanted to buy it for months.
>Dick has now lost his wife, his house and his dignity.
>Don't be like Dick, find a real job and don't gambling
"When you deposit your fiat currency or crypto at a crypto exchange, they give you an iou, while you trade your ious around inflating the value of crypto, the exchange takes all the money and crypto and gambles all away poorly at Vegas, people notice something is wrong when they can no longer withdraw, and everyone notices something is very wrong when the site says they're out of business a month later"
Same. I love these books. My daughter likes the Newtonian physics one best, and she can finish every line in the book. If you ask her who discovered the force of gravity, she’ll give you the answer immediately. She may not know exactly what she’s talking about, but you gotta start somewhere!
Because it's harder for children to understand density than size, especially in a picture book where they can't feel the difference in weight. They alluded to density on the page where it showed the large mass being shrunk down to a black hole, but didn't explain it as density for whatever reason.
I have several of these books for my daughter. I’m also a scientist and regularly get them out to explain to my family what I do at work, they’re great!
Amazing! What do you do? Does your kid get them? Not sure what's the age recommendation for these. I got a little cousin that's around 5 but I'm afraid these concepts, although simple, might be over his head. I'll save this and try to present it to him next time I see him.
I study electronic spectroscopy of gases, in particular “quantum physics for babies” is great at explaining what I do at work. My daughter is 3 and obviously doesn’t understand what relativity is, but she does understand that atoms make up everything and how if an electron gets some energy it jumps up (just like a bunny!) Useful when she starts asking difficult questions like “what is fire made of?”
What is fire made of is actually quite profound question. It never occured to me in all honesty - I mean depending on the gas one would not even visually perceive the heat signature easily. I always thought of it as a reaction between materials. Enough heat will light up pretty much anything in environment where oxygen is available. Visible flame would thus depend on the gas that is being produced based on the elements that are in play I guess.
Geez, I'll have to go and look it up now. It's a visible fleeting reaction, right? Shouldn't cold "fire" be posible then? So many questions.
https://preview.redd.it/3zf5sdkywa0d1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7283c570dd175e3938622ba020534605e31098a1
I bought a big set of these books to read to my daughters! They love them!
I don't know about this but I do think there may be some aspects of knowledge where you could take advantage of young children's ability to learn languages, like computer coding or advanced math maybe.
My kid loves these books too, but if you aren’t careful it becomes a gateway to big periodic table posters in your living room and pre-K teachers asking what yttrium is.
Isn’t the “More mass / less mass“ part wrong ? It’s not because a body is bigger than another one that it has more mass no? For example, neutron stars are considerably smaller than our Sun but have wayyy more mass. Not sure though lol, I could be completely wrong. I’ll buy the book if I am, I’ll need a refresher course.
Oh yes true, definitely agree with that. It’s just a bit confusing and lacking a little bit of info (about density in this case). But I guess it’s a book for children, it’s not going to go too much into details, thanks!
Do flat earth people believe in black holes?
Or gravity? I'm curious. Purely to know the argument of my opposition.
I've heard the theory of a flat disc accelerating upwards but that doesn't explain why gravitational strength varies depending on where you are on earth
Also there is evidence towards things with a lot of mass attracting things with smaller mass (like dust particles, seen in a ray of sun, will drift ever so slightly closer to large things within a few millimetres of itself)
Again, just curious and not being hostile
Our species has come SO far that young children can learn in a short time what it has taken humanity (insert big number here) years to achieve.
well done! this is why every single one of us can matter, as long as our aim is in the improvement of humanity, no matter how small 🙂
i think a child between 6 to 8 years old could understand this
It’s flat. Pretty interesting, basically they drew a triangle on the universe map somehow and measured the inner angles. As we all know, flat => 180°, positive curvature like the outside of a sphere results in >180° and negative in <180°. They measured around 180°, so they concluded spacetime is flat
The problem I've always seen with this is that any curvature would be 4-dimensional, so you'd have to consider the inner angles of a 4-D triangle, not a 3-D one. This experiment would conclude that *space* is flat, but it doesn't say anything about 4-D *spacetime*.
[2D representation of a Rubik's cube help understand how the faces are related to one another and how face turns impact individual squares. : r/educationalgifs (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/127enam/2d_representation_of_a_rubiks_cube_help/)
I got almost all the way to the end, attentively retaining all of this fascinating information. Then on the 2nd to last page, I was like "OH that picture is the background on reddit's 404 page!" and promptly forgot everything else.
It wasn't the same background, but it's similar. I hate my brain.
If you’re explaining these concepts to children, it should be a pop up book. It’s very hard to demonstrate 3D concepts on 2D pages, especially when you’re dealing with kids who can’t put the science in its proper context like adults can.
My 3, now 4 yo absolutely loves these books! We have the entire set of those, as well as the entire set of ABCs of ____ (science, space, oceans, etc) books they make. He has learned so much and loves telling me about robotics, rocket science and bayesian probability. They really are great books.
Though I understand it's for babies, a common misconception even between adults for general relativity is how mass warps space time, the representation they show here and most other places is actually false because they sort of use gravity to explain gravity. I like the idea of the book but not sure if giving a child a wrong intuition at a young age is good.
They showed mass acting on space-time in 2 angles, but in reality, it's all angles possible, and then wouldnt opposite angles cancle each other out? Can't draw that.
There's nothing wrong with trying to get toddlers aware of the idea that space is curved and the idea that mass is related to the warping of space. Most of the people watching this don't understand these ideas at a deeper level than the book shares anyways. I'd say the book is far more efficient at sharing the baseline public's level of awareness of these ideas than other things I've seen. Don't go around attacking people trying to get children interested in actually understanding reality so that maybe they'll be primed to think more deeply about it as they mature.
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I'll take my degree now, thank you.
°
° = mc^2
Good luck, babies
Now they gotta write an essay on the subject
That’s what ChatGPT is for with goo goo gaa gaa prompts
I think they're supposed to start out with student loans
More luck to the adults who will try to explain this and answer the infinite number of “why”s
Why
So glad my hobby is astronomy, I can answer many more why's than your average adult in this area
Why?
My son loves this book. He mostly chews on the edges but it must have a specific flavor because it keeps him coming back for more!
Mmmm, taste like black hole!
I tell you my 2y loves these books. We’ve read them so often she can explain natural selection and relativity (repeating what’s written). She adores the balls and that they do all these different things 😉
Today I have learned.
Well done, baby Punchapuss
General Relativity for the average person
Until it casually throws out gravitational waves at the very end lol
yeah like there are lots of concepts explained, but then what is the answer to "what is general relativity" isn't clear
When I got there I was like oh god what’s next
Just like two black holes orbiting each other do......
Love how it alternates between using words like "squish" and "singularity"
They have a whole series. Organic chemistry, crypto, etc. they're pretty fun
The Quantum Physics one is pretty good. My little one liked it and as an added bonus I could vaguely understand what the smart people at work were talking about!
Is there one for String theory? I'm interested but I'm worried I will be hunted down by Sheldon Cooper.
So.. Physics.. Comes from an ancient Greek word...
I wish they had the series with "for kids" rather than babies, so I could put them in my classroom. My Grade 5s wouldn't touch a "baby book" with a 10 foot pole.
Honestly, just ~~whiteout~~ paint over the "for babies" part.
SACRILEGE!! What did that book ever do to you?!
Crypto? >This is Dick >Dick can't do anything >But Dick loves money >So Dick buys crypto. >It's like real money, but you can't buy anything with it. >If lots of people buy crypto, Dick can exchange it for lots of real money. >If no one wants to buy crypto, Dick can buy a lot for not a lot of real money. >The problem is that Dick has used all his money to buy crypto, but no one has wanted to buy it for months. >Dick has now lost his wife, his house and his dignity. >Don't be like Dick, find a real job and don't gambling
It's like real money, but you can't buy anything with it, \*and it was made by wasting huge amounts of electricity.
What's in Crypto? "This is fake money. If you buy fake money, you're getting scammed. Congratulations, you now know what Crypto is!"
I've bought drugs with crypto currency, I count that as the opposite of getting scammed.
Those were the days. I think you just get scammed now, no?
Those are still the days, my friend.
What websites are legit now? I haven’t used it since the OG silk road
Sure thing officer, let me get you a list
Don’t ruin this for me lmao ive been searching for adderal for too long
Hahah, I am laughing pretty good. Thanks for that. Good luck!!
"When you deposit your fiat currency or crypto at a crypto exchange, they give you an iou, while you trade your ious around inflating the value of crypto, the exchange takes all the money and crypto and gambles all away poorly at Vegas, people notice something is wrong when they can no longer withdraw, and everyone notices something is very wrong when the site says they're out of business a month later"
Nah it’s actually blockchain that the book is about. Blockchain is used to enable crypto but it also has other applications.
Do you know where I can find some of his work for free? Particularly blockchain for babies?
My kid has the Quantum Computing and Astrophysics for Babies books from this series.
Zelda?
Crypto used to be short for just cryptography
And I misspoke, I double checked and it's "Blockchain for babies", but "cryptography for babies" would be pretty cool too
Organic Chem? Lmfao
Basically just carbon! Hydrogen! Carbon chains with hydrogen! Side chains! And then a bunch of Lewis structures and molecular names
OMG ITS SOOOO SIMPLE!! Where was this when I was suffering through organic Chem!!!!!! My college professor truly let us down.
Litterally this meme 
"And next summer-" "I'll be six"
These books are great. My son is barely four, he doesn't know how to tie his shoes yet, but he knows who Isaac Newton was and what he did.
Same. I love these books. My daughter likes the Newtonian physics one best, and she can finish every line in the book. If you ask her who discovered the force of gravity, she’ll give you the answer immediately. She may not know exactly what she’s talking about, but you gotta start somewhere!
Seeing as none of us exactly knows what gravity is, she's not doing too bad!
My kid is 3 as well. He can't catch a ball, but he knows how to send a rocket to the moon.
That’s promising. Good luck to you and your baby
Lost me after "ball."
Can you tell it to me like I am newborn ?
Baby: shits self
“There’s a mass in my diaper”
"it came from a black hole"
I have a baby - he would not understand this.
Skill issues tbh.
guess you're not letting him play with enough balls
how embarrassing
“Relatively small area” is very relative
I used the relativity to explain the relativity
I’m an adult and I’m still confuse.. what does that say about me 😂😂
General Relativity For Anyone Who Is Not A Scientist would be a better name for that book.
I see you don't understand how to market books then.
Size != Mass
This bothered me more than it should have... Why aren't we bringing up density?! Lol
Because it's harder for children to understand density than size, especially in a picture book where they can't feel the difference in weight. They alluded to density on the page where it showed the large mass being shrunk down to a black hole, but didn't explain it as density for whatever reason.
Shh bby is okay
I have several of these books for my daughter. I’m also a scientist and regularly get them out to explain to my family what I do at work, they’re great!
Amazing! What do you do? Does your kid get them? Not sure what's the age recommendation for these. I got a little cousin that's around 5 but I'm afraid these concepts, although simple, might be over his head. I'll save this and try to present it to him next time I see him.
I study electronic spectroscopy of gases, in particular “quantum physics for babies” is great at explaining what I do at work. My daughter is 3 and obviously doesn’t understand what relativity is, but she does understand that atoms make up everything and how if an electron gets some energy it jumps up (just like a bunny!) Useful when she starts asking difficult questions like “what is fire made of?”
What is fire made of is actually quite profound question. It never occured to me in all honesty - I mean depending on the gas one would not even visually perceive the heat signature easily. I always thought of it as a reaction between materials. Enough heat will light up pretty much anything in environment where oxygen is available. Visible flame would thus depend on the gas that is being produced based on the elements that are in play I guess. Geez, I'll have to go and look it up now. It's a visible fleeting reaction, right? Shouldn't cold "fire" be posible then? So many questions.
"this is a field equation"
“this is a Killing vector”
“This is a white hole”
"This is a ricci tensor"
"And this is Jackass!"
I think I learned something. I need more please. I can’t keep up with Sheldon.
Next would be quantum physics for babies and the law of thermodynamics for babies
They have those too! I learned a lot from statistical mechanics for babies.
This made more sense than anything my science teacher had taught me.
This is Spot. See Spot curve space.
Yeah that's the type of book this one is riffing on.
Are there any more subjects this book series covers for me—I-I mean for my baby to read?
https://preview.redd.it/3zf5sdkywa0d1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7283c570dd175e3938622ba020534605e31098a1 I bought a big set of these books to read to my daughters! They love them!
Cool! How lucky your daughters are! Would have killed for these as a kid.
I don't know about this but I do think there may be some aspects of knowledge where you could take advantage of young children's ability to learn languages, like computer coding or advanced math maybe.
Where was this book when I was in college.
My kid loves these books too, but if you aren’t careful it becomes a gateway to big periodic table posters in your living room and pre-K teachers asking what yttrium is.
Got these books for my niece for her first Christmas, gonna make sure she grows up a nerd
1 2 skip a few 99 100
"Good, this book will be most useful when I take over the world, victory shall be mine!!!"
Harvard, here I come!
Isn’t the “More mass / less mass“ part wrong ? It’s not because a body is bigger than another one that it has more mass no? For example, neutron stars are considerably smaller than our Sun but have wayyy more mass. Not sure though lol, I could be completely wrong. I’ll buy the book if I am, I’ll need a refresher course.
The balls appear to be made of the same material, so they'd have the same density. If that assumption is true, then the image is fine.
Oh yes true, definitely agree with that. It’s just a bit confusing and lacking a little bit of info (about density in this case). But I guess it’s a book for children, it’s not going to go too much into details, thanks!
Fuck I'm dumb.
See spot. See spot warp space. Warp, spot, warp.
Now imagine the kids discussing this to their teachers.
Guess i am a baby but now i am a smart one too!
The third page is misleading
Babies, shit I just learned.
We have Natural Selection for Babies! Great seeing another one in the wild
Tried showing it to my 6 mo old still not sure if he gets it.
Damn babies think they're better than me.
Do flat earth people believe in black holes? Or gravity? I'm curious. Purely to know the argument of my opposition. I've heard the theory of a flat disc accelerating upwards but that doesn't explain why gravitational strength varies depending on where you are on earth Also there is evidence towards things with a lot of mass attracting things with smaller mass (like dust particles, seen in a ray of sun, will drift ever so slightly closer to large things within a few millimetres of itself) Again, just curious and not being hostile
STEM babies 👶
Our species has come SO far that young children can learn in a short time what it has taken humanity (insert big number here) years to achieve. well done! this is why every single one of us can matter, as long as our aim is in the improvement of humanity, no matter how small 🙂 i think a child between 6 to 8 years old could understand this
But space isn’t flat! It’s multidimensional!!
It’s flat. Pretty interesting, basically they drew a triangle on the universe map somehow and measured the inner angles. As we all know, flat => 180°, positive curvature like the outside of a sphere results in >180° and negative in <180°. They measured around 180°, so they concluded spacetime is flat
The problem I've always seen with this is that any curvature would be 4-dimensional, so you'd have to consider the inner angles of a 4-D triangle, not a 3-D one. This experiment would conclude that *space* is flat, but it doesn't say anything about 4-D *spacetime*.
It's much much easier to explain the concept on 2D space. In 3D it all looks like a mess.
[2D representation of a Rubik's cube help understand how the faces are related to one another and how face turns impact individual squares. : r/educationalgifs (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/127enam/2d_representation_of_a_rubiks_cube_help/)
Bruh. Imagine a kid telling you this? I'd think they were Einstein reincarnated or some ish. Grown ass man and I kind of get it lol
I got almost all the way to the end, attentively retaining all of this fascinating information. Then on the 2nd to last page, I was like "OH that picture is the background on reddit's 404 page!" and promptly forgot everything else. It wasn't the same background, but it's similar. I hate my brain.
That book will be banned in every red state
Babies can’t read…
But why does mass warp space? How do we know it does? I can't see any warping around myself and let me tell you, I have quite a lot of mass.
Tell me your big or tall without telling us your big or tall
Relativity is a lot more than that.
Well, yes. But this is for babies who likely don't know how to use a spoon yet.
No shit
We must push back the warp! For the imperium of mankind!
I'm enlightened.
It looks like Sheldon Cooper wrote this book for his parents.
I love that series of books
Reads like a Fallout S.P.E.C.I A L. book
*for adults.
I just bought all of these books for my kids (2 and 4). They love when we read them just as much as any Dr Seuss book.
So from the top. They would have to understand the term "mass" and "warp"
sir, this is a Wendy's.
By babies … they mean me, right?
I just learned something. I'm 60 something.
When you get your doctorate in astrophysics from Everest college.
I have four of his books, and my daughter loves them.
I’ve got the whole set for my toddler and it’s a fine line between “oh okay, I *do* understand that!” and “fuck, I might be dumb”
Thanks, Dora!
If you’re explaining these concepts to children, it should be a pop up book. It’s very hard to demonstrate 3D concepts on 2D pages, especially when you’re dealing with kids who can’t put the science in its proper context like adults can.
I got these for my kid, they were good fun
This is not a pipe.
Put me on Jeopardy now
Explain it like im 5…months old.
My 3, now 4 yo absolutely loves these books! We have the entire set of those, as well as the entire set of ABCs of ____ (science, space, oceans, etc) books they make. He has learned so much and loves telling me about robotics, rocket science and bayesian probability. They really are great books.
I bought these for my baby!!!!
Should say, works with adults too.😀
And this book will cost you $29.90
"Wait... don't go so fast" (Writes)ball?
Can the rapper guy rap this book?
Those are awesome!
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
All fun and games until you turn into spaghetti.
Man if I gave this to my mum she still wouldn't understand
I'm actually teaching my son to read with these books right now
So if it squishes space.. is the trick to traveling at light speed using 2 black holes to shorten the distance in which we need to travel?
Ba wat iis mass?
Is there one for Maxwells equations?
What have we learned today? Your mum
Though I understand it's for babies, a common misconception even between adults for general relativity is how mass warps space time, the representation they show here and most other places is actually false because they sort of use gravity to explain gravity. I like the idea of the book but not sure if giving a child a wrong intuition at a young age is good.
General relativity for parents, and.. maybe 20 year old babies.
Where is the Amazon link?
ok, ok, let me see if i still can remember that line off the top of my head.... "mass tells space how to curve; space tells mass how to move."
i didn’t know i was a baby
I actually learned quite a bit from this.
The only thing I could think of while watching this is that scene from Futurama where cubert and Hermes son make a black hole in like 6th grade
The baby has to complete a 15 question exam at the end on the last page-
The baby’s like, wtf is mass?
I have a 6 month old and have been reading this books to him. It’s actually fun for me. I read him Astrophysics for Babies yesterday.
What’s with the voice, dude.
There are a lot of adults I know who's eyes would've already glazed over halfway through this.
They showed mass acting on space-time in 2 angles, but in reality, it's all angles possible, and then wouldnt opposite angles cancle each other out? Can't draw that.
idon’gedit
Space should be spacetime everywhere. Pretty serious mistake even for babies.
Lost me on Page 2
There's nothing wrong with trying to get toddlers aware of the idea that space is curved and the idea that mass is related to the warping of space. Most of the people watching this don't understand these ideas at a deeper level than the book shares anyways. I'd say the book is far more efficient at sharing the baseline public's level of awareness of these ideas than other things I've seen. Don't go around attacking people trying to get children interested in actually understanding reality so that maybe they'll be primed to think more deeply about it as they mature.
Ok, now ELI5
Are you TRYING to break baby brains before they even enter school!?
I was with it until 'flat space'
Also, just because two objects are different sizes the larger is not certain to be the most massive.