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Nov 2022
53m 59s

The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russe...

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

Let's relax and sleep with more mysteries of relativity, like the speed of light, why time isn't time, and how a fake train robbery reveals that simultaneity doesn't exist. Except when it does.

 

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