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

ScienceClic English · course · Watch on YouTube

Fundamental physicsPure mathematicsCosmology & astrophysics

What it is

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

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Eight-part series teaching how to calculate general relativity effects.”

    zamadatix, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted”

  2. “it covers it with incredible visualizations and pedagogical approach”

    Incredible visualizations and pedagogy for differential geometry topics.

    Vetch, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “We need to reclaim our attention”

  3. “ScienceClic on youtube has some really great videos”

    Series on the maths of general relativity; ScienceClic has great videos.

    psc, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: spacetime, worldlines, proper time, differential geometry, physics visualization

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