The Obsession that Drove Einstein Mad

Finding a unified field theory consumed Einstein for the last 30 years of his life. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Chapters: 0:00 Special Relativity and General Relativity 0:42 The Search for Unity 1:01 A Childhood Sparked by Curiosity 1:28 The First Attempt at Unity (Hermann Weyl’s Theory) 2:48 Theodor Kaluza’s Hidden Fifth Dimension 3:55 The Strange New World of Quantum Mechanics 5:04 The Quantum Clash 5:55 The Press and the Parallelism 6:55 New Forces, New Problems 8:05 One Final Push 9:36 The End of a Dream 10:03 The Quest Lives On: String Theory 11:05 Today's Sponsor: Brilliant Double-slit experiment video: https://youtu.be/5kfGRO6msQw Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Einstein’s Princeton, New Jersey home: Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons