SIO353: A General Episode on Special Relativity!
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Or wait... is it a special episode on General Relativity? Find out! Dr. Bryan Gillis takes us through some fascinating history on the discoveries and experiments that ultimately led to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How did they measure the speed of light in like 18 dickety 2 or whatever? Impossible. Also why is faster than light travel equivalent to time travel? So much fun.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only this is episode 353 and I'm Thomas Smith and |
| 0:21.8 | this is a part two so make sure you listen to last one because that's where we started |
| 0:25.2 | this conversation and now we're going to get to the second part which is more in depth |
| 0:29.8 | bit longer and it's about relativity it's about time travel it's about time and space |
| 0:34.6 | and light and all this good stuff super fascinating I love it so much I will say even after |
| 0:40.2 | editing and kind of hearing this a second or 50th time depending on how you count editing |
| 0:45.2 | there's some stuff in here I still didn't fully grok so I'm going to say maybe if you |
| 0:50.1 | have questions you know post them on the patreon or on the wherever you I guess can |
| 0:54.8 | post them post them where you see the episode and maybe we can try more to have Ryan further |
| 1:00.4 | help us understand this or maybe it's just me you all just 100% understand it and that's |
| 1:04.9 | cool that works too also quick note and I suppose this is mostly for patrons because they're |
| 1:12.2 | hearing this right away but as I'm recording it's announced that Trump will be indicted that |
| 1:16.0 | is major and I'm going to get on with Matt as soon as I can to do a response on that because |
| 1:21.8 | that is huge news absolutely huge looking forward to celebrating but in the meantime let's |
| 1:27.2 | learn a bunch of really cool stuff about astrophysics and relativity and whatnot here we go |
| 1:31.9 | I think for this let's start out with a bit of history about the speed of light come at it |
| 1:37.1 | from the same perspective that humanity does so first humanity has figured out that light |
| 1:43.3 | is a wave it's in particular a wave of electromagnetism that basically you get alternating electric |
| 1:49.5 | fields and magnetic fields where the creation of one and then the destruction of that's for |
| 1:55.0 | the creation and destruction of the other and they basically leap frog each other you get an |
| 1:59.8 | electric field going up and down and a magnetic field left and right one causing the other and then |
| 2:06.7 | it all moving forward and so at the smallest scale possible is one photon of light and so this |
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