Time, Space, and Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity with Dr. Michael Bolin

“I sometimes ask myself,” said Albert Einstein, “how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about the problem of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”

About five weeks ago, Dr. Henry Zepeda was a guest on this podcast talking about Euclidian geometry:  points, lines, planes, angles, and solids. Euclid described the world as we see it today, the way we typically consider the true way of seeing it.

In 1905, however, a young man named Albert Einstein proposed something different. Euclid, he said, hadn’t taken into consideration motion and time. Once you do that, he reasoned, geometry needs to be taken as a branch of physics. 

Dr. Michael Bolin who teaches Einstein’s Special and General Theories of Relativity to Wyoming Catholic College seniors talks more about that.