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AMA | August 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Einstein's Theory of Space Time

Einstein didn't like menkowsky space time, he thought it was just showing off mathematically a little bit to a complicated and who needs that? We're all physicists, right? But he was, of course, thinking about this question of gravity. So fitting gravity into special relativity was an obvious thing to think about. And there's a lot of trial and error, honestly. You know, reading books and papers about rimanian geometry was a big part of it.

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