
The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics
The Reality of Einstein’s Space
Documentary · Feb 18, 2021 · 33 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E4: What’s left when you take all the matter and energy out of space? Either something or nothing. Newton believed the former; his rival, Leibniz, believed the latter. Assess arguments for both views, and then see how Einstein was influenced by Leibniz’s relational picture of space to invent his special theory of relativity.
Documentary · Feb 18, 2021 · 33 min