Dwarkesh Podcast · 10 July 2026 · 98 min

Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch

General RelativitySpecial RelativityNewtonian GravityEquivalence PrincipleSpacetime CurvatureBlack HolesEvent HorizonGravitational Time DilationGravitational RedshiftSchwarzschild SolutionEscape VelocityGravitational WavesExperimental EvidenceBending of LightPhysics HistoryTheoretical PhysicsAI and PhysicsQuantum Gravity

Adam Brown returns to explain the core ideas behind Einstein's general relativity, distilling its key insights for a general audience. The episode covers the equivalence principle, the curvature of spacetime, black holes, gravitational time dilation, and the historical and experimental evidence supporting the theory.

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