Joseph Henrich
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1,282 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
Joseph Henrich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, people were kind of talking about that.
And they were talking about multiple dimensions.
And like Henri Poincaré at the same time.
comes up with the same equation as Einstein, but he doesn't give it as radical an interpretation as Einstein does.
He was thinking of the equations as kind of fudge factors, trying to make the math work.
So there was a almost simultaneous invention of special relativity, and the ideas were all circulating.
And Einstein happened to be in a place which allowed him to put all those things together.
As a patent clerk, he was actually processing devices to synchronize trains in different parts of Europe.
And so he had to think about the amount of time a signal coming from different parts of the world.
And there was a bunch of these.
And we know the patents that went through.
And we know that he had to look at these.
There was only two guys.
So he happened to be in a particular place and time in terms of the ideas circulating and what he was doing on a day-to-day basis that really did give him an edge.
Now, you could then say, well, what about general relativity?
Well, there was a couple other guys who were probably going to get general relativity.
And Einstein himself was worried that he was going to get scooped.
Because once you get the one, it's just a matter of figuring – I mean it's just a matter of figuring out the math.
The math is really hard.
But there were a number of other people who probably would have gotten the math.
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