Physics for Everyone, Lecture 3: Motion, from Galileo to Dark Mysteries

Podcast: The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss · Lawrence M. Krauss

Opublikowano: 2026-04-14

We usually begin the study of physics with a discussion of motion, not because it is easy, or because the modern understanding of motion began with Galileo hundreds of years ago. Rather, Galileo’s groundbreaking work provides a paradigm to understand how physics is done today. Extracting out the fundamental essence of motion from all the distractions associated with what turn out to be irrelevant complexities was a monumental intellectual leap for humankind—a leap we often take for granted. Without the leap, for example, Newton could never have made his profound discoveries about the relationship between forc...