Explaining Einstein's General Relativity on its 100th Anniversary, with the BBC

November 18, 2015 1:17 PM

Explaining Einstein's General Relativity on its 100th Anniversary, with the BBC
It's the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of General Relativity! The BBC recorded a conversation with me about Einstein's ideas, and they turned that recording into a short animated video. If you want to know more about general relativity, then (in my extremely biased opinion), this is a simple and fast explanation of the basic idea. (Also, I do not own the shirt that my animated avatar is wearing, but I wish I did.)

There has also been a bunch of other cool stuff done for the anniversary which I was not involved with at all, including a neat article in the New Yorker by Randall Munroe (the xkcd guy), a timeline of important events in the history of general relativity from New Scientist, and (of course) a bunch of scientific conferences.

Role: science communicator

posted by freelanceastro (2 comments total)

That explanation and animation are super charming.
posted by cortex at 1:18 PM on November 18, 2015

Freelance astrophysics? Sounds like fun, though it must take a lot of self-promotion. After multiple long post-docs I have a tenured faculty position, but nothing so fun as a book on interpretations of QM by the publisher of GEB. A few projects down I write about a Citizen Science project I'm trying to get off the ground.
posted by Schmucko at 6:27 PM on November 18, 2015