Can You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
What can you trust in Spacetime? Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Help translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g Last time we talked about what curvature means, looked at geodesics, great circles on spheres, and tried to understand the notion of "straightness". This week on Spacetime, we take a detour into how geometry works in spacetime. Get excited, because this episode is even more mind-bending than the last! Past Episodes On SpaceTime: "Are Space And Time An Illusion?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YycAzdtUIko "Is Gravity An Illusion?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NblR01hHK6U "Can A Circle Be A Straight Line?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3GVVkPb3OI Let us know what topics you want to learn more about: http://bit.ly/spacetimepoll Extra Credit: Overview of Special Relativity and spacetime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScdLqAA_64E www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeCsS6PjhK8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAXHHBUY9_E http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/spacetime/ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special_Relativity/Spacetime Brian Greene s introduction to special relativity (thanks to viewer Mark G for pointing out these courses!) http://www.worldscienceu.com/courses/university/space-time-and-einstein (no math) http://www.worldscienceu.com/courses/university/special-relativity (more math) Disagreement about event sequence (relativity of simultaneity): http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special_Relativity/Simultaneity,_time_dilation_and_length_contraction#More_about_the_relativity_of_simultaneity ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Music: u dont know im fadin Secret Society - Logical Disorder (http://logicaldisorder.bandcamp.com/) Movement 3 - Janne Hanhisuanto (https://soundcloud.com/jannehanhisuanto) Philly D Jr - Patternbased (https://soundcloud.com/patternbased) Earth Breath - Human Terminal (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hum...) Deep Blue - Janne Hanhisuanto (https://soundcloud.com/jannehanhisuanto) Saw Slicing - Patternbased (https://soundcloud.com/patternbased) Heisse Luft - Thompson and Kuhl (https://soundcloud.com/phlow/05-x-com) miracle - slow (http://www.restingbell.net/releases/r) Tropico de Tauro - Sr. Aye https://soundcloud.com/sr-aye) New SpaceTime episodes every Wednesday! Hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
