Excellent Free Course On Einsten, Relativity, His Views Etc from Harvard

[bhobba]

Hi All

I just finished the following course on Einstein and Relativity:

https://www.edx.org/learn/humanities/harvard-university-the-einstein-revolution

It is especially interesting as it goes into the details of how he differed from Poincare. I was fascinated by some of Poincare's accomplishments in the field of Mining Engineering. A few great scientists had engineering degrees (Dirac and von Neumann), but Poincare took his engineering very seriously.

Of course, it also touches on his debates about QM. It is one of the few accounts that points out Heisenberg got the indeterminacy principle wrong and had to be corrected by Bohr.

It is accessible to high school students and probably even middle school students. If you take the full course rather than auditing it like I did, there is a lot of essay writing. If you take the full course, the college credit you get is definitely earned.

I found the course a delight and highly recommend it.

Thanks
Bill

 

[cianfa72]

Thank you, very appreciated.