Sean Carroll: Einstein’s most radical thought

Become a Big Think member: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_... 0:00 Einstein — underrated? 1:00 The network of genius 1:48 Space and time 2:21 Electromagnetism 2:59 The speed of light 4:20 Spacetime 5:38 Special theory of relativity 6:31 Inverse square law of gravity 7:56 General theory of relativity 10:12 Quantum field theory 13:22 Quantum mechanics 16:16 Why physics is a conversation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stadium_billiard.gif / George Datseris / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Changed color from original EM-Wave.gif / And1mu / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) 1905_offprint_front.jpg / Jeremy Norman Collection of Images / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) World_line.svg.png / K. Aainsqatsi / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Changed color from original Inverse_square_law.svg.png / Borb / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Changed color from original Newton_theorem.svg.png / Kmhkmh / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Changed color from original Minkowski_progressive.gif / Camilésimo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Rebuilt from original Newton_versus_Schwarzschild_trajectories.gif / Simon Tyran / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Electrons-standing-waves-orbits.svg.png / MikeRun / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Bundesarchiv_Bild183-R57262,_Werner_Heisenberg.jpg / German Federal Archives / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Born-rule.gif / Thierry Dugnolle / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Robert_Laurence_Mills_(cropped).jpg / Peter A. Frisch / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Cropped from original Weak_Decay_(flipped).svg.png / Niamh O'C / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Nobel_Prize_24_2013_(cropped).jpg / Bengt Nyman / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Desaturated from original DIMG_7472_(11253451693).jpg / Bengt Nyman / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Desaturated from original 960px-Robert_Brout.jpg / Pnicolet / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) YoichiroNambu.jpg / Betsy Devine / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Desaturated from original Steven_weinberg_2010.jpg / Larry D. Moore / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Desaturated from original Abdus_Salam_1987.jpg / Molendijk, Bart / Anefo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Cropped from original FrankStockholm2004.jpg / Betsy Devine / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Cropped & Desaturated from original Murray_Gell-Mann_at_Lection.JPG / Melirius / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Cropped & Desaturated from original George_Zweig.jpg / Peacearth / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) / Cropped & Desaturated from original ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Sean Carroll: Dr. Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.