01-11-2018, 03:35 PM
Kenney - I hope you continue to chime in here - I'm always very happy to try and explain things which might come across as complicated or a bit obscure. I enjoy trying to make astronomy understandable to those interested.
I thought the show did a really good job of explaining gravity and general relativity in a fairly simple manner. Interestingly, general relativity is incredibly complicated mathematically, but simpler to explain to the layperson. Special relativity, which is essentially general relativity without acceleration (i.e., gravity), is mathematically quite simple, but very difficult to explain.
I thought the show did a really good job of explaining gravity and general relativity in a fairly simple manner. Interestingly, general relativity is incredibly complicated mathematically, but simpler to explain to the layperson. Special relativity, which is essentially general relativity without acceleration (i.e., gravity), is mathematically quite simple, but very difficult to explain.