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216 - Shape - Jordan Ellenberg

You Are Not So Smart

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The Theory of Relativity and Space Time

In the history of physics, you eventually have to accept that these kinds of symmetries are the ones that space time actually has. So this is what happens when you start to really wrestle with how relativity works. There's a story from art history wit the creation of a a perspective. And once that's introduced, into art, all the sudden, there's this moment where art looks like the real world and gets crazy again.

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