Can You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?

What can you trust in Spacetime? Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: Help translate our videos! Last time we talked about what curvature means, looked at geodesics, great circles on spheres, and tried to understand the notion of "straightness". This week on Spacetime, we take a detour into how geometry works in spacetime. Get excited, because this episode is even more mind-bending than the last! Past Episodes On SpaceTime: "Are Space And Time An Illusion?": "Is Gravity An Illusion?" "Can A Circle Be A Straight Line?" Let us know what topics you want to learn more about: Extra Credit: Overview of Special Relativity and spacetime: Brian Greene's introduction to special relativity (thanks to viewer Mark G for pointing out these courses!) (no math) (more math) Disagreement about event sequence (relativity of simultaneity): ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­--------------------------­-­-­-­-­- Music: u dont know im fadin Secret Society - Logical Disorder ( Movement 3 - Janne Hanhisuanto ( Philly D Jr - Patternbased ( Earth Breath - Human Terminal ( Deep Blue - Janne Hanhisuanto ( Saw Slicing - Patternbased ( Heisse Luft - Thompson and Kuhl ( miracle - slow ( Tropico de Tauro - Sr. Aye New SpaceTime episodes every Wednesday! Hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)