Title:
Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps
Speaker:
Peter Galison
Subject:
cosmology
Area:
Astronomy
Type of school:
laboratory
School name:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Country:
United States
Course language:
English
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
Contributor:
pbp
Comments:
Pegram Lectures: Peter Galison
Peter Galison, Pellegrino Professor of the History of Science and Physics at Harvard University, gave a series of three lectures at Brookhaven on November 2 and 3, 2006.
Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps - how the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein and Henri Poincaré, a well-known nineteenth-century mathematician and theoretical physicist, were able to develop the insights that led to their groundbreaking discoveries in special relativity, which describes the motion of particles at close to the speed of light.