Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

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Richard P. Feynman was Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for his work on the development of quantum field theory. He was also one of the most famous and beloved figures of the twentieth century, both in physics and as a public intellectual.

Six lectures, all regarding the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. No one—not even Einstein himself—explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman.

GPS expert Hatch refers to §6-6 "The speed of clocks in a gravitational field" (p. 131) in one of his lectures on how GPS doesn't needs relativity theory to function properly.