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Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host Sean Carroll.

There's a talk that I sometimes give. I've been giving for the last year and a half.

I'm sure you can find versions of it online.

It's related to volume one, the biggest ideas in the universe where I go through classical mechanics,

space time, all the way up to general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity.

So in the talk, I have the high aspiration of in one hour explaining to you Einstein's equation

in all of its specific real glory.

The real equation, R-mu-nu minus 1-halfN-New-N-Nu, not just E-C-Mee-square. That's easy enough. Everyone can understand that.

And one of the themes of this talk that I give is the equations are smarter than we are.

This is why I think it's worth the effort in a book like the biggest idea series of talking about the equations.

Not that it's the only way to talk about physics etc.

Just because I have some equations in my recent book doesn't mean that I'm suddenly

looking down upon people who don't have equations in their books.

I think that all different levels, all different approaches are interesting and important, but one of those interesting ones is the equation-based one.

And the reason why is because as I said

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