Telling the story of the Revolution

The good people at Revolution Books made me quite at home when I arrived, and the talk (see previous post for background) was fun. There were about 20 people there in the end, all very engaged and asking many excellent questions*. So I spilled over the allotted time as a result, but in a good way, since people really wanted more, it seemed. I managed to explain all the key parts of Special Relativity that I wanted to, unpacking in a way that seemed to work, and even went on to explain the Equivalence Principle and set up the key aspects of General Relativity.

The prep for the talk was a blast… I’d just written out some thoughts on several sheets of large drawing paper – the big stuff I like to do large life […] Click to continue reading this post