The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - The World We Know - Extra History - #5
Added 2018-06-22 17:31:00 +0000 UTCUp until the 20th century, people assumed light behaved like a wave, passing through the "aether wind"--a fluid with incomprehensible properties. When the Michelson-Morley experiment disproved the aether's existence, Einstein put out the theory of relativity--that space and time were part of the same package.
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Regarding the Quantum Mechanics / Quantum Computing videos - would it be possible to suggest running the scripts by someone like Scott Aaronson? So much reporting and pop science gets things horrifyingly wrong, and I don't want to see that happen here.
Dusk Star
2018-06-25 05:29:31 +0000 UTCThis series made me become a Patron. You did such a good job of explaining such an important discovery! Now is going to be so easy for me to explain to my 12 year old child why Einstein is so important. Than you.
Juan Alberto Aranda Alvarez
2018-06-24 17:44:22 +0000 UTC"Our knowledge is always evolving. It means that it might be the wrong idea to think of mathematics as 'true' or 'not true'. Rather, it might be more useful to simply ask 'is it well reasoned?' This frees us from the trap of having to prove the unprovable, and allows us to find reason in the unreasonable." This is a really fascinating question, and I'm glad it's mentioned! I do think that it's not quite so simple: 'is it well reasoned?' presumes the existence of a fixed reasoning system, which not everyone (*cough* Brouwer *cough) agrees with. Moreover, even if we assume a fixed metalogic that we're all okay with and then study a logic within it (this is the way geometry is treated in this series, for example), we can say "any consistent system is good", but this clashes against our intuitions: if the logic of natural numbers (Peano Arithmetic) is consistent, then it remains consistent if we add the assumption that it is *not* consistent! (This is all getting very far from the original topic, of course.) PS: Can't wait for your quantum computing series!
jesyspa
2018-06-24 10:12:55 +0000 UTC6:13 Mr. Math, I don't feel so good...
Ethel_Mezezi
2018-06-24 03:33:02 +0000 UTCAll of these references to mathematicians and scientists being thrown into fearful panic reminds me of the last panel in this comic: <a href="http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20180622.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20180622.jpg</a>
Paul Lenoue
2018-06-23 22:21:05 +0000 UTCDude...
Michael Jebbett
2018-06-23 07:18:09 +0000 UTCwhat will the one off be ?
schuyler
2018-06-22 21:13:02 +0000 UTCBravo! I know you only touched upon it at the end of this episode, but it's another interesting deep dive into math about there will be parts of geometry that will remain unsolvable. Remember that about 15 years after General Relativity, Godel presented his Incompleteness Theorems that showed that even first-order arithmetic will have unprovable elements. The work of all of math during the late 19th and early 20th centuries is incredibly fascinating!
Jason Fox
2018-06-22 20:21:10 +0000 UTCwow
Hayden Tuff
2018-06-22 19:23:39 +0000 UTCThis is the last one. Next week is Lies.
Extra History
2018-06-22 18:49:21 +0000 UTCHe is the same one!
Rossum
2018-06-22 18:31:10 +0000 UTCDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! QUANTUM MECHANICS!!!!!!
The Rosamund Project
2018-06-22 18:13:22 +0000 UTCThank you to Whomever sponsored the upcoming series. I am very much looking forward to it.
BrandonC
2018-06-22 18:05:50 +0000 UTCThis Lobachevsky is the same from Tom Lehrer's song? If yes, can you talk about this on lies?
Samp
2018-06-22 17:58:31 +0000 UTCHow many Episodes will there be in this Series?
Martin Verran
2018-06-22 17:35:05 +0000 UTC
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