Is Gravity REALLY Time Curvature?!
Six years ago, I posted a video about time curvature and gravity. It has become my most viewed video of all time. Does it hold up after six years?
Nick Lucid - Host, Writer, Editor, Animator Emily Lucid - Producer, Captions
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00:00 Intro 00:57 Time vs Space Curvature 01:58 Tall Building Thought Experiment 03:17 How Photon Clocks Work 04:07 Bad Naming Choices 05:18 Gravity Depends On Time 07:10 Clocks and Coordinates 08:15 Spacetime Diagrams 08:54 The Time Axis 09:35 Fluid Analogy 10:31 The Time Axis (Revisited) 11:15 Four Velocity 12:20 Suppressed Dimensions 13:07 Does Time Flow? 13:59 Calculus Differentials 14:54 Time Is More Fundamental 15:21 Abrupt Endings 15:33 Closing Thoughts
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