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1.4 Guest Lecture: Space, Time, and Spacetime
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MIT 8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January IAP 2021
Instructor: David Kaiser
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Professor David Kaiser teaches in the physics department at MIT and is also a historian of science. In this guest lecture, he describes how the most accomplished physicists of the mid-to-late 19th century were thinking about motion of bodies through space and time, and how, at the end of that century, a rather young and very little known person named Albert Einstein began asking similar questions but often in very different ways. (01:13:40)
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