Einstein Surfing
Albert Einstein got a lesson in surfing from one of the UK’s top professional surfers at the Rip Curl Boardmasters in Newquay to promote Einstein Year.
Pro surfers Emanuelle Joly (Womans Champ 2003) and Rubyn Ash took Einstein through some surfing moves at the UK’s biggest free lifestyle sports festival and the only UK leg of professional surfing’s World Qualifying Tour.
Surfing is all about physics and Einstein hopes that his superior knowledge of the subject will make him a natural in the water.
Einstein (professional actor Gary Barber) explained some of the physics behind surfing to the Rip Curl professionals and had a go at surfing himself. Although surfers can’t carry pocket calculators, understanding the physics at work might help make them even better. In surfing, speed, balance, and turning all rely on physics – gravity and buoyancy.
