The Insider October 2022

Special thanks to

Morten Hansen, IT Committee and Kiryl Platonau, Charity Club and Madara Inita Drukaļska, Alumni Committee and Evita Sondore, Luīze Marta Ustupa, Y1’s for filling out the survey, Danija Līva Jaundzema, exchange students for being a part of the Latvian beer review, Eleving Group, and, of course, Memers and Gossipers

So far so good - is what many of you would like to be able to say about these first months of this semester; however, with such high fail rates in many exams, it is easy to say that it has not been that good for the majority of students. So, let this (late) issue of The Insider lift your spirits and distract you from the dreary everyday life we all seem to experience.

This issue will give you quite a few practical tips - remind or introduce yourself to some useful tips for public speaking to make sure your pres entation skills are much better than just subpar. Moreover, this issue also features some sugges tions from the Charity Club on how to help oth ers, as well as (some of you might already know this by heart) tips on how to fail an exam - follow this article at your own risk though… Also, as always the Alumni Committee brings us some important insights about our furthering your ed ucation as an SSE Riga student, so make sure to check it out to find some inspiration on what YOU should and should not do! For some less serious tips - take a look at what Latvian beers are the favourites of this semester’s exchange students, the results might shock you…

If, however, you are looking to spread your knowledge even further and educate yourself, you most likely will enjoy an article about Ein

stein’s theory of Relativity, which might make you contemplate how much we as humans really do know about what is happening around us. Of course, do not forget to check out Morten’s article and understand more about what this win ter will really mean for this economy and how much should you worry. For those of you who find AI interesting - the IT Committees article is a must-read, as it features some AI-generated text. If none of this interests you, do make sure to look at some quick calculations of how much time you should spend studying as a student at SSE Riga and make yourself feel better about slacking off!

Last but not least - what would The Insider be without some entertaining articles? For some fashion inspo take a look at our thoughts on the most fashionable students one might see on cam pus as well as get some great ideas on what affir mations to put into your personal journal when you are manifesting all of that good energy for yourself! As it has become a tradition for the October issue - be sure to familiarize yourself with the new Y1s and get some great song recommendations (playlist included)!

xoxo, The Insider

THE INSIDER TEAM

Editor-in-Chief Laura Elīza Pauliņa

Designers

Katrīna Danenbergsone Adriāna Grišina Nora Ķigure Luīze Mestere Alise Stikāne Anastasija Citajeva Adrija Dubkeviča

Armands Audže Līva Cera Karolina Dekoneka Madara Inita Drukaļska Danija Līva Jaundzema Marija Kovaļauska Laura Lapsa Mikaels Mihaeljans

Editors

Kiryl Platonau Luīze Staškeviča Beatrise Strautniece

Jānis Edgars Štrauss Veronika Tubele Anete Upeniece Luīze Marta Ustupa Daša Varmaškina

ASSOCIATES OF THE MONTH

Rihards Kluinis IT Committee

Commentator of the year. Rihards helped out the committee at the most difficult moment, becoming an excellent commentator at the time of the CS:GO tournament.

Ernests Romanovs IT Committee

A great contributer to the creation of the tournament, coming up with a name, as well as ideas on how to introduce players without teams to our tournament.

Kristaps Guntis Drunka Business Committee

Highly responsive and responsible with the given tasks. Great addition to the team!

Liliana Sidorova Business Committee

Introduced an innovative way to approach sponsor companies. High initiative and valuable ideas in the committee’s organi zation!

Ralfs Kalniņš Alumni Committee

Actively participated in the committee in terviews and developed committee strate gy.

Anton Grankin IT Committee

Anton helped in the creation and organi zation of the tournament, which greatly facilitated the life of the head of the IT committee.

Kiryl Platonau IT Committee

The person without whom the an nouncement of our events would not be so colorful and bright!

Reinis Andersons Event Committee & Business Committee

Amazing associate! The most active and reliable associate in the first month, cov ering for both courts: BusCom and Event Com!

Sofija Elizabete Grīnfelde Marketing Committee

Shows great passion for what she does and has a great mind of fresh ideas.

Margarita Kolyushkina Business Committee

The definition of a hard worker. Coming with her own initiative and working with EXTREME succes rate!

Terēze Jansone Business Committee

The MVP throughout the summer and the start of autumn!

Raivo Liniņš Sports Committee

A very active memeber, helped a lot in teambuilding organization :)

Jānis Edgars Štrauss Sports Committee

Most active member thus far. Responsible, put the biggest effort in the teambuilding :)

Oskars Saulītis Marketing Committee

Is ready to jump on any idea that we might have or even think of a new one. A guy with a creative vision.

Anna Nagle Event Committee

She will never not be associate of the month.

Laura Lapsa Marketing Committee

Has never failed to amaze any one by her great photography skills.

Markuss Baltais Marketing Committee

The man behind most of the de signs all of us have seen. No Markuss, no great designs.

Anete Upeniece & Roberts Andersons Sports Committee

Orgaized the foosball tournament of the highest quality :)

Theory of relativity

Most of us have accepted the fact that the surface of the earth is not flat. But what if I told you that the surface of space is flat. Would you believe it? Well, according to the theory of General relativity surface of the space acts as fabric. It’s like material that bends under heavy objects, therefore, if there would be nothing in space, it would be flat space. Sounds unrealistic, but that’s how we understand the universe to this very day. How did we come to this conclusion? To whom should we be thankful to? Everything starts with a single thought, the same was for Albert Einstein Daydreaming for us normal people is equivalent to what Einstein took for experimenting. When he was 16, he imagined what riding a beam of light could be like. After 10 years Einstein returned to his daydream, and it changed his life In the spring of 1905, Einstein was riding on a bus and he looked back at the famous clock tower that dominates Burns, Switzerland. A question bugged him What would happen, if the bus accelerated to a speed that’s close to the speed of light? Einstein looked back at the clock and what he saw was astonishing As he reached the speed of light, the hands of the clock appeared frozen in time Einstein would later write the following, ‘A storm broke in my mind all of a sudden everything, everything kept gushing forward ’ Einstein understood that back at the clock tower time is passing normally, but on Einstein’s light speed bus as he reached an unimaginable pace, the light from the clock could no longer catch up to him The faster he raced through space, the slower he moved through time. This insight sparks the birth of Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The theory suggests that space and time are deeply connected, in fact, they are one and the same. A flexible fabric called space time. In 1905, Einstein published his theory of special relativity from which followed the most famous equation in physics Energy = mass * (speed of light)^2, which explains how speed affects mass, time, and space. But let me explain what this equation really means.

by Mikaels Mihaeljans

For example, imagine two wound up watches that are both exactly the same atom for atom, except that one of them is fully wound up and running but the other one has stopped. According to Einstein, the watch that’s running has a greater mass than the other watch Why? Well, the hands and gears in the running watch are moving so they have some kinetic energy. There are also wound up springs in the running watch that have potential energy. There is a little bit of friction between moving parts too Due to the friction, these parts are heated up slightly forcing atoms themselves to start to jiggle a little bit That’s thermal energy or equivalently randomized kinetic energy on a more microscopic level

Furthermore, what E equals m over c squared means is that all that kinetic energy and potential energy, and thermal energy that resides in the watch’s parts, manifests itself as a part of the watch’s mass You just add up all that energy, divide it by the speed of light squared and that’s how much the kinetic potential and thermal energy of the parts contribute to the whole. Since the speed of light is so huge, this extra mass is tiny. The special theory of relativity was revolutionary, but it was very limited cause you could apply it only in the case of the object moving in one direction and at a constant speed, but the real world doesn’t work that way In our universe, everything accelerates cars, trains, planes.

So, for Einstein’s theory to work, it has to account for everything in the universe. That includes the pervasive and invisible force that holds everything together Gravity. Einstein started to expand his special theory of relativity into a general theory of relativity. A theory that will not only explain time but also gravity This means that he had to fight two centuries of scientific thought and his hero sir Isaac Newton Einstein faced an extremely difficult task. It wasn’t clear, where to begin Ultimately, the thing that gave him that clue turns out to be his old faithful way of reasoning the thought experiment At his patent office looking through the window, he imagined men working on the roof and he began to wonder what would it be if one of those men were to fall off the roof? At that moment, he had the happiest . thought of his life. The inspiration of the ages He had a vision that . the man will not actually be

feeling his weight, he would be weightless instead. Einstein kept questioning if you’re in the elevator and somebody cuts the cord what happens to you? You fall but the elevator falls at the same rate as you do. That makes you weightless in the elevator. Einstein connected the dots must be that gravity has been switched off. So, what’s really going on? It turns out, there is no such thing as gravitational pull It’s the Earth that has curved the space around you, and space is pushing you into your chair Space itself can be curved. Overthrowing Newton’s ideas, Einstein provided a new theory of the universe In conclusion, everything you should know about Einstein’s theory of relativity is this time slows down near heavy objects, gravity is caused by the curvature of space time, the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time, time is the 4th Dimension, gravity can travel in form of waves, and last but not least the speed of light is always constant.

Three laws of physics by Albert Einstein:

1. Objects in motion or at rest remain in the same state unless an external force imposes change. This is also known as the concept of inertia.

2. The force acting on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration. In other words, you can calculate how much force it takes to move objects with various masses at different speeds.

3 For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Three Quotes of Albert Einstein:

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible ”

“I know not with what weapons World War

will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

3 “Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.”

Facts about Albert Einstein:

Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 (coincidentally, 3/14 is also known as pi day because it’s the three digits of pi: 3.14). Joda's face was partially modelled after Einstein’s.

Known as the father of modern physics, he published some of the most important scientific theories of the 20th century, and his work still drives the physics that we observe today