211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation

<p>My little pandemic-lockdown contribution to the world was a <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/biggestideas/videos/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">series of videos</a> called <em>The Biggest Ideas in the Universe</em>. The idea was to explain physics in a pedagogical way, concentrating on established ideas rather than speculations, with the twist that I tried to include and explain any equations that seemed useful, even though no prior mathematical knowledge was presumed. I'm in the process of writing a series of three books inspired by those videos, and the first one is coming out now: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/biggestideas/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Biggest Ideas In The Universe: Space, Time, and Motion</em></a>. For this solo episode I go through one of the highlights from the book: explaining the mathematical and physical basis of Einstein's equation of general relativity, relating mass and energy to the curvature of spacetime. Hope it works!</p> <p><em>Support Mindscape on </em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Patreon</em></a><em>.</em></p>