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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.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:34PM
Dammit. Rookie mistake! For some reason I was thinking of GR being the general, broad one, and SR being the special one because it included gravity...
For example, you'll find that the equator has a strange attractive force, since no matter where and in which direction you start, sooner or later you'll find yourself at the equator
But then I'd also notice that every great circle has the same "strange attractive force," wouldn't I? Then it stops being strange...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by boristhespider on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:39PM
Other way round, Special Relativity is specialised to the case where there is no gravity, and General Relativity applies in the general case where there *is* gravity...
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:40PM
Broad as in undetailed.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:53PM
Well, the potential of the equator obviously is that of a harmonic oscillator: all orbits have the same period.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday April 07 2015, @09:29PM
Still not getting what can be special about the equator instead of any other great circle, if we're just talking about the Earth's surface as an example of curved 2d space. Only now you've mentioned orbits...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk