Speed of Light
With the speed of light fact i chose to compare it to a cheetah (fastest animal on earth) to put into context how fast it is. The speed of light in miles per hour is 670 616 629. Which works out to be x9580237.55714285714286 faster than the average speed of a cheetah.
I chose to present this in my infographic by stacking vectors of cheetahs on top of eachother until it hits the top of the page, implying it goes on for a while.
Time Travel
For this part of the infographic i used the information from an experiment by Hafele-Keating in which two scientists sent atomically synchronized clocks twice around the world on airlines, first east then west. Then compared them both to a 3rd clock, upon doing so each clock was different and were consistent with the theory of general and special relativity.
General relativity predicts an additional effect, in which an increase in gravitational potential due to altitude speeds the clocks up. That is, clocks at higher altitude tick faster than clocks on Earth’s surface. This effect has been confirmed in many tests of general relitivity, such as the Pound-Rebka experiment and Gravity Probe A. In the Hafele–Keating experiment, there was a slight increase in gravitational potential due to altitude that tended to speed the clocks back up. Since the aircraft flew at roughly the same altitude in both directions, this effect was approximately the same for the two planes, but nevertheless it caused a difference in comparison to the clocks on the ground. (wikipedia)
I portrayed this by creating a flat style earth, plane and clocks, all very simple designs and colours. I think that this style works well with each other and the target demographic.
4th dimension is time.
Albert Einstein said that the 4th dimension is time, keeping with the flat theme i chose to portray this by using line drawings to create all the dimensions in order. This is also quite compact so it is easy to position on the infographic.
Pantheon List
The pantheon list is a database which determines how famous people are by how many articles there are about them on the internet and books about them, Albert Einstein is 23rd on the list of all time. I put this into my infographic by having 22 images of generic men in a pyramid then having a image of Einstein’s silhouette on top, in a different colour to stand out.
