Episode 136: Introduction to General Relativity
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The Problem With Curved Space Time Calculus
Durettos don't have to be about position as such but that's sort of useful for us because most of the calculus we're interested in relates to movement of particles or objects through space time. So derivatives are just rates of change and if that's still too abstract just think of it as a velocity. If you take the derivative of that sort of series of displacement values what that’s telling you is the rate of change of the position of your car or in other words the speed of your car how fast is it moving sometimes the derivative will be zero because it's not moving anywhere and then sometimes the derivative is positive. We need to introduce additional formalism that allows us to
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