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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 07 2015, @03:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can-really-learn-my-maths-and-sciences-now dept.

If you ever wanted to learn General Relativity, now here's your chance. The caveat is that first you must learn differential geometry. But it's not difficult, really. Only lots of hard work, but not difficult. I was attending this February such a course. This course is fully documented: there are recordings of all lectures, and of tutorials with solutions (also the .pdf files with practice questions). For easier access you can also visit the The WE-Heraeus International Winter School on Gravity and Light YouTube channel.

You should know though that this material on the internet is not everything we were doing there, the biggest omission are the advanced tutorials, which were done in groups and couldn't be filmed. Also their solutions were too difficult to be "quickly" filmed like the tutorials that have videos. However there's hope that advanced tutorials will also be put online some time later this year (as promised by the organizers). In that case I'll submit a follow up story.

I must tell you that attending this course was really a great experience, and Prof. F. P. Schuller is in fact on of the best lecturers I have ever met.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:27PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:27PM (#167555) Homepage
    The problem is the example given by all the lets-get-youngsters-interested-in-physics demonstrations where they plop a heavy ball in the middle of a rubber sheet, and then roll another ball past it. Worst of all is if the rubber sheet has grid-lines, as you then get deceived into thinking they represent geodesics, which they no longer do. It's a poor analogy that's in your brain right from the very start, and hard to shake.
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:45PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:45PM (#167569) Journal

    Yes, that's indeed another problem; the rubber sheet is probably the most misleading "illustration" of GR in existence.

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