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