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Oh, yeah. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast episode 114, Special Relativity.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So, it's been a long time coming.

I've been wanting to do this episode for probably about 10 years, and I've spent a long time

trying to understand special relativity, both formally in my physics education,

and then doing my own reading and research and playing around with things.

And I've been working on this episode for quite a long time now.

And finally, I've decided that, yeah, it's come to the stage where I'm happy to put together the material

and, well, this is the resulting podcast.

So special relativity is a

notoriously difficult topic to understand. The mathematics of it are fairly simple, but

conceptually it's just very hard. So this episode is an attempted introduction to special

relativity that doesn't assume really a lot of math background. And really what I'm

focusing on is the conceptual understanding of the principles of relativity and why they happen,

why it works that way, and resolving certain paradoxes and misunderstandings and so forth.

So recommended pre-listing for this episode is episode 13, Newtonian mechanics. And that's basically

just to sort of give a bit of a

background as to what comes before special relativity or what it's sort of building on.

In general, it might be helpful to have a bit of background in some other physics concepts,

such as electromagnetism, for listening to this episode, just to sort of give you some,

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