Lecture 341 min 34 sec
General relativity
Geometry responds to mass and energy.
Follow the conceptual path from the equivalence principle to curved spacetime, geodesics, and Einstein's field equation.
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The Metric Tensor, Warp Drives, and Wormholes
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