The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics

The Reality of Einstein’s Space

Documentary Feb 18, 2021 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E4: What’s left when you take all the matter and energy out of space? Either something or nothing. Newton believed the former; his rival, Leibniz, believed the latter. Assess arguments for both views, and then see how Einstein was influenced by Leibniz’s relational picture of space to invent his special theory of relativity.

Documentary Feb 18, 2021 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

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Released: 2021
Run Time: 33 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

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: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.