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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1995-07-15  |  8.6 MB  |  320x188  |  12fps  |  1 minute, 24 seconds
Transcription: I've heard that Albert Einstein is very special to physicists. Yes, many physicists would claim that Albert Einstein was the greatest physicist that ever lived. The only comparable person was Isaac Newton. But weren't some of his ideas pretty crazy? Like time slowing down? Perhaps. But time slowdown, or time dilation as it is called, is well established for objects moving close to the speed of light. This is a consequence of his special theory of relativity. What about the bending of light? In Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity curves space and time and light follows the curve ar ...