What podcasts say about Adam Brown
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What Adam Brown has said on podcasts
24 statements · 16 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 3 neutral
General relativity is the most beautiful product of a single mind ever created.
“general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity is as I think, as you say, like the most beautiful product of a single mind that we've ever created”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 0:36
Special relativity asserts that nothing can travel faster than light.
“nothing can go faster than Light”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 2:40
Newton’s gravitational force law is not valid in general relativity.
“This will not be true in general relativity.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 6:44
Newton’s instantaneous force law conflicts with the finite speed of light.
“It is inconsistent. Newton's force law with this principle.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 7:21
Electromagnetic corrections make electrostatics consistent with special relativity.
“all of which conspire to make the electrostatic force law fully consistent with special relativity”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 9:39
The equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass is verified to one part in 10¹⁵.
“now we know it's true to one part in 10 to the 15”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 15:03
Einstein proposed that gravity could itself be an inertial force.
“Could it be the case, Einstein asked, that it's true for gravity.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 20:53
Einstein’s 1907 central idea was treating gravity as an inertial force.
“So this was Einstein's Central idea In 1907, his most beautiful thought.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 21:05
Matter curves spacetime in general relativity.
“the effect of matter is going to be to curve space time”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 27:57
General relativity describes falling objects, planetary motion, and cosmic expansion.
“General relativity does all of that and goes one step further. It describes the motion of apples falling off trees, it describes the motion of Mercury and the planets in the solar system, and it describes the expansion of the entire universe.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 31:28
The Schwarzschild solution describes spacetime around a black hole.
“it describes what the space time around that looks like. It's called the Schwarzschild solution, and it describes a black hole.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 33:28
Static observers require infinite acceleration at a black hole’s event horizon.
“once R is equal to 2 gm over c squared, this what's called the Schwal radius, you have to accelerate infinitely”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 50:38
Gravitational time dilation has been extensively confirmed experimentally.
“This is a fact that has by now been extremely well observed experimentally.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 57:42
Black-hole power plants could extract nearly all input rest-mass energy.
“I can extract essentially 100% of the rest mass energy that I've gone in.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:10:29
Quantum gravity allows black holes to destroy nucleon-number conservation.
“black holes eat nuclear number”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:12:09
Observational and theoretical evidence establishes that black holes exist.
“black holes do exist. We're extremely confident now.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:19:21
General relativity predicts twice Newtonian physics’ light-deflection result.
“Through Newtonian physics and general relativity, you can do the same calculation and you actually get double the Newtonian answer.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:25:41
Eddington’s 1919 eclipse expedition confirmed Einstein’s light-bending prediction.
“in 1919, Sir Arthur Eddington launches a British expedition to go and observe the eclipses all over the world and successfully comes back and declares that indeed it was the Einstein prediction”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:28:30
The equivalence principle is an empirical foundation for general relativity.
“you probably want the equivalence principle, that the inertial, it's an empirical fact that the inertial masses and the gravitational mass are the same for everything”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:32:01
String theory largely seeks a unique consistent gravity theory with minimal experimental input.
“string theory has kind of gone all in on that I would say is just trying to, with minimal experimental input, believing that there's only one consistent theory of gravity.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:34:48
Large language models are expected to become superhuman explainers.
“we also expect these large language models to be superhuman explainers”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:36:19
Future language models will make difficult mathematical proofs easier for humans to understand.
“They will be able to take proofs that are difficult to understand and make them easy to understand.”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:36:36
Language-model-generated mathematical ideas can be human-interpretable and reusable in new proofs.
“it came up with a very human interpretable idea and then humans were able to fully comprehend it and comprehend it so well they were able to deploy it in a new scenario”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:37:16
Language models’ extreme patience makes them useful for exploring unlikely mathematical approaches.
“another aspect of large language models that makes me pretty optimistic, is that they just have extreme patience”
Open the episode · Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratchListen at 1:38:04
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