211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation

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

Sean Carroll | Wondery

Society & Culture, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Ideas, Society

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

My little pandemic-lockdown contribution to the world was a series of videos called The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. The idea was to explain physics in a pedagogical way, concentrating on established ideas rather than speculations, with the twist that I tried to include and explain any equations that seemed useful, even though no prior mathematical knowledge was presumed. I’m in the process of writing a series of three books inspired by those videos, and the first one is coming out now: The Biggest Ideas In The Universe: Space, Time, and Motion. For this solo episode I go through one of the highlights from the book: explaining the mathematical and physical basis of Einstein’s equation of general relativity, relating mass and energy to the curvature of spacetime. Hope it works!

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0:00.0	Whether it's a team reinventing the electric motorbike,
0:03.0	the sound of what this place is looks like it should be in front.
0:05.6	Or a company making a vest that allows you to feel the virtual world.
0:09.8	Right now we have wind, now it's hailing.
0:13.8	Uh-oh, now it looks like it's going to be fireballs.
0:16.8	The third angle podcast introduces you to the brilliant minds
0:20.0	behind some of the world's most unique feats of engineering.
0:23.6	I'm your host Paul Hames from PTC.
0:26.0	The third angle is out now on your favorite podcast app.
0:30.6	Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape podcast.
0:32.6	I'm your host Sean Carroll.
0:34.2	And today we're going to get a special solo edition of Mindscape,
0:38.2	which we occasionally do when we have a new book coming out at the same time
0:42.2	as we have the podcast ongoing.
0:44.2	So I think this is the second time that this has happened.
0:46.8	We did this before for something deeply hidden.
0:48.8	I book about quantum mechanics.
0:50.6	The new book which arrives on September 20th, 2022
0:54.4	is the biggest ideas in the universe, volume one, space, time and motion.
1:00.6	The book is of course based on the video series,
1:03.4	the YouTube videos that I did at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
1:07.6	And it's a little bit of a departure, both for me and for the world of physics books out there.
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