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The Maths of General Relativity (1/8) - Spacetime and Worldlines

The first of an eight-part ScienceClic series building general relativity, covering worldlines, proper time and coordinate systems with animated visualizations.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Praised for its visualizations and pedagogy in threads about physics and differential geometry.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
ScienceClic English
Topic
general relativity
Format
course
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • An attempt at a true ELI5 is the bodies exist in what we know as spacetime, not as separate independent concepts of space and time which we perceive from our day to day experience, so we have to know a bit about the difference. Chiefly …

    zamadatix on Hacker News · 2021-04
    In Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted

  • It's difficult to find material that's a series, rigorously demonstrated and advanced at the same time (there's lots excellent material that ticks either one or the other of those boxes). Here are some examples I subscribe to that come close: Covers Quantum Field Theory and …

    Vetch on Hacker News · 2022-01
    In We need to reclaim our attention

  • ScienceClic on youtube has some really great videos, the first half of the string theory video [1] does a good job framing the conflict at a high level, string theory being one attempt to resolve the problem. It doesn't go into math but mentions that …

    psc on Hacker News · 2023-12
    In New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics

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