Lecture 7: A Political History of Gravity

MIT STS.042J / 8.225J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century, Fall 2020
Instructor: David Kaiser
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[@KipIngram]

1:09:50 - Don't ever forget that there are still plenty of people like these guys out there in the world today. And these days they *all* have access to the internet. 90% of what you read online has the intent of manipulating how you think, rather than of informing you in an unbiased way. And 90% of the people consuming information from the internet will just find someone who's saying the things they like, and make that person their respected authority.

[@jaydenwilson9522]

Lenard did do good work on the PE Effect and Cathode Rays and completely disagreed with the particle interpretation as well as what he called the mathematical abstractions which undermined observational data... I dunno wtf they were on about claiming Relativity was an Aryan concept though, pretty weird. Doesn't matter much though as the true father of the PE Effect was a Russian guy named Alexandr Stoletov way back in 1888 who likewise disagreed with the particle interpretation and who's career suffered when the West received all the credit as many of his fellow Russians argued in favour of the particle interpretation, yet Alexandr would have none of it.

[@KipIngram]

@@jaydenwilson9522 Well, the whole business was charged with previously existing prejudices and biases - things rarely "make sense" in situations like that. People will twist through all kinds of hoops to make their people look great and their enemies look stupid and despicable.

[@northpolenate]

MIT, i use opencourseware lectures as neuro linguisting programming. keep posting them online. thank you!

[@jonludwig8233]

Any idea which KZbin video about non euclidean geometries is being referenced?

[@tytrdev]

I have a feeling it might be the hyperbolica devlog series by codeparade? Not sure which one, but here's the one I remember. The timeline lines up from when the videos were released as well (just before fall 2020 when this was recorded). Either way it's a nifty watch even if it's not what he's referencing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pom6g4ymmb6WbbM&ab_channel=CodeParade

[@sharplessguy]

I want to watch it also

[@jaydenwilson9522]

The Theory of Gravity is solely Mass-based yet its wrong. Both Newton and Einstein were wrong. Its Density. 1 kg of Helium, 1 kg of Wood and 1 kg of Iron. One rises, one floats and one sinks, not because of Mass but because of Density relative to the Medium from Earth's surface/Oceans surface. Gravity is essentially "Density Equalisation" reliant on thermal/electrical charge of the Mass, not Mass itself. We need to enforce the study of fluid dynamics for all students or else we are bound to suffer continued wrong think and the dogmas of group think. Also the calculation for Pendulums is unnecessarily complicated as we don't need 'g' or 'm' to accurately find the periodicity of said pendulum. 'g' is dead and big 'G' with it.... please stop relying on it guys as it's a meaningless metric. Great video as well! Thanks MIT and thanks Mr. Kaiser for the information. (Also please don't treat the National Socialist party as inherently Evil as it justifies the same though lines against the Pro-Zionist lobby which has effectively caused more deaths of Gentiles than the Nazis did to the Jewish born and it comes across as extremely hypocritical. If Israel has the right to self-determination then the Germans had that same right.)

[@DDDelgado]

The comment about pendulum got me lost mate

[@ZARIASALIM]

A great something to remember during this genocide happening against the innocent Palestinians that Einstein though of his jewish ethnicity he was an Anti-zionist BTW great lecture And all respect to Einstein

[@GilesMcRiker]

He was a Zionist you idi*t, and in fact was asked to be the president of Israel to which he politely declined. Can't you produce anything other than fava beans and terrorism?

[@jaydenwilson9522]

..... he was a Socialist and supporter of the Jewish Bolsheviks and Jewish Nationalism (Zionism) while hypocritically being against anybody elses Nationalism.... he changed his mind later in life though and as you said become an anti-zionist. The ups and downs of life.

[@ZARIASALIM]

@@jaydenwilson9522 i'm not wrong after all and still respect to him for changing his mind maybe he wasn't aware of the atrocities committed by zionists at first who knows !?nevertheless he said himself "it would be my greatest sadness to see zionists do to Palestinians Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews"