Einstein's Greatest Mistake | David Bodanis | Talks at Google

After writing the bestseller "E = mc²" about an equation that changed the world, our Talks at Google guest David Bodanis, a business advisor and writer with education in science and economics, went on to write about the man behind that equation.

Albert Einstein was a genius who redefined how we think about physics, but while researching how Einstein's creative process Bodanis uncovered his greatest mistake. In this talk he explains his reasoning, creative processes in general, and what we can learn today - scientists and businesses alike - from Einstein's big flaw.

[johnbouttell]

Excellent insight into Einstein's thinking process. Thank you.

[djembelife]

Any interesting talk but the paradox is that I had to keep going back to catch something I missed as he zoomed off before I had fully absorbed the prior thought.  So in the end the fast talking and made things go more slowly.

[flinx]

I'm fine with youtubers talking fast, but something about this speaker is just too fast and I want him to slow down his delivery by ten percent.

[gsanewphysics]

Einstein Field Equations say:Curvature of spacetime = density and flux of energy and momentum.

Mathematically, spacetime is a manifold. But, there is no manifold in astronomy. Albert Einstein really had no idea on the basic of astronomy.

Einstein was interested to Riemann geometry, but he had not realized that Riemann geometry is useless in astronomy. There are no practical applications of Riemann geometry in astronomy. Riemann did not take an interest in the space of the astronomers. Questions about the global properties of space he cut short as “idle questions.”