Einstein's General And Special Relativity Easily Explained
143From what it is to its impact on the world at large, join us as we explore Einstein's theory of relativity and explain it so everyone can understand it.
So where do we start with something as big and as complicated as the theory of relativity? I'm sure some of you wouldn't even know what it is outside of its name—which is fine. But I'm sure you do know the man who came up with the idea: Albert Einstein.
Einstein is revered as one of the smartest people to ever live, and he helped shape how we perceive both our world and our universe. So, it might surprise you that this very brilliant man once started off as nothing more than a patent clerk. No, really, he did. And that's part of the origin story to the theory of relativity.
One day, after doing his work at the patent office, he went on a trolley car to go home, and he would do this day after day. This is important because while he was on that car, he would think about the universe at large. He would ask himself questions and try to figure out the answers as best as he could with the information he had.
One day, he was going away from a clock tower when he asked, "What would happen if the car I was on was going away from the clock tower at the speed of light?"
This may seem like an odd question to ask, but light-speed travel is something that scientists are honestly trying to achieve right now, and these questions were truly the building blocks of this really happening.
Back to the clock tower. Einstein theorized—as well as realized—that if he was moving at the speed of light (which, if you don't know, is 299,792,458 m/s), the hands on the clock tower (the minute hand and the hour hand) would quite literally appear to stop in place. But he also knew that while he himself was traveling at the speed of light and seeing everything stop, more or less, everyone who was at the clock tower and seeing things in normal time would not see them stop. The clock tower and its hands would keep ticking along as if nothing was wrong.
Yet in this experiment for Albert Einstein, time had literally slowed down. It was at this moment that the light bulb went off in his head. Because it was through this experiment that he realized: if you go faster and faster through space, you're actually causing time to go slower around you.
But how is this possible if time was quite literally a constant force in the universe?
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00:00 Intro
00:18 Albert Einstein Experiment
04:04 The problem
05:40 Theory of General Relativity
09:14 Does it really affect us in our daily lives
10:31 What is the flaw
12:53 Theory Of Special Special relativity
15:09 Speed of light
17:12 The concept of time dilation
18:54 Practical applications of time dilation
21:32 Another corollary of special relativity
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