The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein

The core of the video is a workshop pedagogical on the Theory of Special Relativity as part of the educational process conducted by our youth leadership, not for the sake of understanding the theory itself, but using Einstein's particular discovery as a case study to demonstrate and walk people through real human thinking, as being something above sense perceptions or opinions. We end with reflecting on the principle of relativity in terms of social relations and individual identities or thought processes, asking the question --how was Einstein able to make his breakthrough?

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Science & Technology

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• Albert
• Einstein
• prolific
• creativity
• relativity
• discovery
• genius

[glutinousmaximus]

This concept of absolute relative motion; that 'all motion is relative' is not quite right. I can think of one obvious exception: Imagine two very large cylinders in space. At first sight, you cannot tell if one is spinning on it's major axis, and the other is standing still; or vice versa. But then, if a spaceman goes inside one, he can tell right away by approaching and touching the inside wall of the cylinder, or even standing on the inside wall, because only in one will he feel 'gravity'!

[laroucheyouth]

@glutinousmaximus The relativity of non-uniform motion is that you could consider yourself stationary in a gravitational field, while an outside observer could say that you're moving through space at an accelerated rate.

[laroucheyouth]

@glutinousmaximus What we're dealing with in this video in particular is the relativity of motion in relation to Special Relativity. It's a special case, dealing only with uniform linear motion, i.e. no rotation or acceleration. Non-uniform motion is what Einstein takes up in General Relativity. In fact, the reason it's common to associate rotation with a gravitational effect is because of what Einstein did with the relativity of motion in General Relativity.

[emadhn]

whats the music @ 4:55?

[laroucheyouth]

@emadhn Mozart's violin sonata, k 304, performed by Tobias Sing. One of Einstein's favorites.

[munk1790]

who is the woman presenting this? :)

[laroucheyouth]

@munk1790 Shawna Halevy from the LaRouche Political Action Committee. She is part of Lyndon LaRouche's scientific research team which has been nicknamed 'the basement'.

[buzzin1975]

I want to fuck Leona @ 36:30

[bjs301]

What a bunch of crap! I've read and watched some great stuff about Einstein, but the onlything great about this is its level of nonsense.

[glutinousmaximus]

@chrisbceltics Well, I haven't written it elsewhere. To me, it just seems obvious (although I'm well aware that much of nature is not sensible or obvious) What I'm saying is that we can treat the rotating cylinder as an absolute frame of reference within It's own spacetime domain. It's irrelevant whether It's racing through space, accelerating, decelerating, or standing still. The effects of the rotation can always be separately measured.

[chrisbceltics]

@glutinousmaximus That sounds very familiar, as if I've heard or read those exact words before

[glutinousmaximus]

@prasoonpandey2000 Hmmm. Thanks for that. I'm not certain about the uniform or otherwise velocity/motion. This goes to the heart of physics really. Concepts like inertia are involved, and who can be said to understand or explain that? We can stick labels on things, but can we truly understand them? I like Richard Feynman's approach, which is to try to quantify what nature is up to, and accept the weirdness which results.

[prasoonpandey2000]

@glutinousmaximus Ok. MISTAKE.it works only for uniform motion.not for non-uniform motion

[glutinousmaximus]

@laroucheyouth Let's look at this a little more closely. We can imagine that the two cylinders have a similar vector, and may be moving through space alongside each other at a constant velocity. BUT conditions are different; one is rotating, and one is not. The rotating cylinder is imparting a drag on space, affecting spacetime. Within this frame of reference, we can determine the difference absolutely - regardless of constant straight-line motion.

[glutinousmaximus]

@laroucheyouth I'm glad that this has prompted discussion. My point is that historically it has been asserted that there cannot be some frame of reference where one thing can be said to be at rest, and other things moving; or vice versa. Special relativity assumes constant 'straight line' motion, but the equations are explicit, and cannot rule out rotation - certainly not in General Relativity. We must come back to seeing this in terms of spacetime, not just space and velocity.

[glutinousmaximus]

@prasoonpandey2000 Well, bright person, perhaps you will explain how rotation is not motion?