{"id":2399,"date":"2009-06-02T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/06\/02\/susskind-lectures-on-general-relativity\/"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:47:18","slug":"susskind-lectures-on-general-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/susskind-lectures-on-general-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Susskind Lectures on General Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonequilibrium.net\/239-susskinds-lectures-general-relativity\/\">Dmitry Podolsky<\/a>, a series of YouTube videos from <a href=\"http:\/\/continuingstudies.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford<\/a> encompassing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0\">an entire course by Lenny Susskind on general relativity<\/a>.  I didn&#8217;t look closely enough to figure out exactly what level the lectures are pitched at, but it looks like a fairly standard advanced-undergrad or beginning-grad introduction to the subject.  (For which I could recommend an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805387323\/lecturenotesonge\/\">excellent textbook<\/a>, if you&#8217;re interested.)  This is the first lecture; there are more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Einstein&amp;#039;s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_hbmf0bB38h0\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/hbmf0bB38h0\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hbmf0bB38h0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1H38M28S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2009-01-14T03:26:04Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_hbmf0bB38h0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/hbmf0bB38h0\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Einstein&#039;s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hbmf0bB38h0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/hbmf0bB38h0\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Einstein&amp;#039;s General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind&#039;s Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded September 22, 2008 at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fourth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Stanford Continuing Studies: http:\/\/continuingstudies.stanford.edu\/ About Leonard Susskind: http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/physics\/people\/faculty\/susskind_leonard.html Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/stanford\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fantastic that Stanford is giving this away.  I don&#8217;t worry that it will <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/will-the-internet-replace-universities\/\">replace the conventional university<\/a>.  The right distinction is not &#8220;people who would physically go to the lectures&#8221; vs. &#8220;people who will just watch the videos&#8221;; it&#8217;s between &#8220;people who can watch the videos&#8221; and &#8220;people who have no access to lectures like this.&#8221;  And Susskind is a great lecturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Dmitry Podolsky, a series of YouTube videos from Stanford encompassing an entire course by Lenny Susskind on general relativity. I didn&#8217;t look closely enough to figure out exactly what level the lectures are pitched at, but it looks like a fairly standard advanced-undergrad or beginning-grad introduction to the subject. (For which I could recommend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12023,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/12023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}