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About 107 years ago, Albert Einstein and David Hilbert published general relativity. It's the most modern model of gravity we have, but university courses on it are difficult to find. This video is a self-study guide.

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TIME CODES

00:00 Cold Open
00:34 My Credentials
01:51 Freund
02:50 Feynman Lectures
03:41 Wikipedia and YouTube
04:54 Hartle
06:07 My Book
06:22 Carroll
07:34 Wald
08:05 Misner, Thorne, Wheeler
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10:48 Outro
11:13 Featured Comment