The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Let's relax and sleep with more mysteries of relativity, like the speed of light, why time isn't time, and how a fake train robbery reveals that simultaneity doesn't exist. Except when it does.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
| 0:18.3 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our Patreon family. |
| 0:25.9 | Stephanie, Chris, Sean, Lindsay, and Window Bird. |
| 0:35.0 | Thank you all so much for supporting this podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | By becoming members of Patreon, you help us remain ad-free and relaxed for everyone, and it's very much appreciated. |
| 0:47.7 | And because you joined us in the month of November, you and everyone else who supports us by becoming a member of Patreon or dropping us a one-time |
| 0:57.6 | tip via buy me a coffee.com will be entered into our first raffle in some time, the prize for which is an episode of |
| 1:07.4 | boring books for bedtime made just for you, and because it's just for you, copyright restrictions do not apply. |
| 1:17.7 | So if you've always wanted to hear the joy of cooking or a brief history of everything. This is your chance. You'll find |
| 1:27.3 | links to both Patreon and buy me a coffee.com in the show description. |
| 1:33.0 | Good luck to everyone and thank you for supporting. |
| 1:37.0 | Now let's read and relax. |
| 1:42.0 | Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight we return to the relaxing world of science, |
| 2:07.0 | with more from the ABC of Relativity, |
| 2:12.0 | by Bertrand Russell, author of the Principles of Mathematics, proposed |
| 2:19.2 | roads to freedom and why men fight, first published in 1925 by Harper and Brothers of New York and |
| 2:30.4 | London. |
| 2:32.4 | Let's pick up right where we left off with Chapter 3, |
| 2:37.0 | The velocity of Light. |
| 2:40.0 | Let's begin. |
| 2:42.0 | Chapter 3 Let's begin. |
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