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211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Riemann Tensor and Einstein's Equation
The Riemann tensor is a compact way of thinking about how the metric is changing from place to place and that characterizes the curvature. Einstein had already invented E equals MC squared, right? It's an example where in physics we take two different ideas and we learn that there are different aspects of a single underlying concept.
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