The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, Part 4

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Let’s relax and sleep with more about Einstein’s theories of relativity, how geometry gets messy on a sphere, the validity of measuring with eels, and a bit about Pythagoras, who feared beans. Who knew?

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0:00.0	Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.
0:08.9	I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some
0:17.9	sleep.
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1:25.0	Now, let's read and relax.
1:30.0	Find a comfortable spot.
1:35.0	Adjust your volume.
1:38.0	Take a nice deep breath in.
1:58.6	Let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight let's relax with some more science as we work our way through the ABC of relativity by Bertrand Russell, author of the Principles of Mathematics, proposed roads to freedom,
2:10.5	and why men fight, First Published in 1925, by Harper and Brothers, New York and London.
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