Kaća Bradonjić: The Nature Of Space And Time
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Physicist Kaća Bradonjić's view of time is shaped by her experience as a war refugee. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Kaća Bradonjić is a theoretical physicist living and working in Massachusetts. Her research on the nature of space, time, and gravitation straddles the boundaries of science, philosophy, history of physics, and visual art. She is particularly interested in the relations between mathematical structures used in physics and the aspects of the physical reality they are supposed to represent. Kaća lives and works in Massachusetts, where she is currently a Visiting Lecturer of Physics at Wellesley College and an artist member at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA.
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| 0:40.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:43.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:45.2 | I felt... |
| 0:46.0 | I was so... |
| 0:47.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:48.3 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:51.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:53.3 | ...and... Golden moment. Because science was on my side. |
| 1:05.9 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 1:08.7 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:11.3 | This week's story is from Kacha Bradenich. It was recorded in December 2015 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:19.9 | So I am a theoretical physicist who studies the nature of space and time in the context of |
| 1:25.1 | Einstein's general theory of relativity. |
| 1:28.3 | And the reason I'm doing that is because I was once a war refugee. |
| 1:34.3 | So the story starts at the beginning of 1992, it's winter. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm 11 years old and living in Sarajevo, my hometown, which is located in a valley surrounded |
| 1:43.3 | by beautiful mountains in what was once a country called Yugoslavia and is today Bosnia. |
| 1:48.8 | I have to say, I'm yet to see a more magical site than Sarajevo in the winter evening hours covered in snow, |
| 1:58.0 | colorful lights glowing from the tables of street vendors selling toys and decorations |
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