Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
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Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity

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Adam Brown is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced. Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford. But in this episode, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol. At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity...

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I'm back with Adam Brown. You currently need Blue Shift at Google Deep Mind, which is cracking science and reasoning. In a previous life, Adam was a prolific physicist, taught at Stanford, and did research on everything from cosmology to string theory to general relativity. It said that general relativity is the most beautiful thing the human mind has ever

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conceived or seen. And I was curious if there's a way that ordinary people like me could understand what is happening or have some vintage on why it's beautiful without taking your 20 lecture graduate course. So that was the prompt for this lecture and I appreciate you being willing to do it. Super exciting to be here. And yes, I think the answer is yes. Yes, we can. Yeah. So I mean,

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general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity is, I think, as you say, like the most beautiful product of a single mind that we've ever created. It's one of the two great theories of 20th century physics along with quantum mechanics. And unlike quantum mechanics, it was basically Einstein. He had a little help, but basically one person doggedly pursuing this idea for 10 years and

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