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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
The History of Physics
Michael Sonamor: We lose our capacity to visually intuit the world we're discussing. He says Einstein's theory of special relativity is motivated by this inconsistency at Maxwell's equation for speed of light. Sonamor argues that math underpinning it is very simple and can be taught in a high school class.
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