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The Infinite Monkey Cage

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What Motivated Einstein to Come Up With This New Theory of Gravity?

John carroll is a leading cosmologist at calte. I was also scientific adviser on te hollywood film thors. It's always very interesting to see how genius physicists do their work, because they're all different. One thing that actually strikes me about the personalities of many successful, genius physicists over the course of history is how stubborn they are. He just got this thing in his mind that he was going to fit gravity into special relativity. So why is my apple falling? Well, einstein would say, the apple isn't falling. The apple is minding its own business, with no forces acting on it, travelling in a perfectly straight line through space. And the earth

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