Why is Relativity Hard? | Special Relativity Chapter 1

Thanks to for supporting this video! Thanks to my friend Mark Rober () for making the spacetime globe, and to Grant Sanderson () for inspiration. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! Link to Patreon Supporters: This is the first in a series of videos about special relativity. This is definitely not an academic course, but it’s going to be a more in depth and developed exploration of a single topic than a typical standalone MinutePhysics video. I’ve been greatly inspired (and heckled) to do this by my friend Grant Sanderson of 3blue1brown who’s set the standard for this kind of thing with his excellent series - serieses? - on calculus and linear algebra. So, special relativity. Special relativity is one of the most popularly famous ideas in physics – it’s that thing that Einstein figured out about the spe