Daily Dose

From The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene

NOTHING

"To someone who knows only English, general relativity might not immediately be recognized as Einstein's theory if presented in Chinese.  A physicist fluent in both languages, though, can easily perform a translation from one to the other, establishing their equivalence.  We call this example 'trivial' because nothing is gained, from the point of view of physics, by such a translation."

From Chapter 12, Beyond Strings