#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

1001.097 - 1024.06 Sean Carroll

In his own telling of the story, his greatest moment, his happiest moment was when he realized that if the way that we would say it in modern terms, if you were in a rocket ship, accelerating at 1G, at one acceleration due to gravity, if the rocket ship were very quiet, you wouldn't be able to know the difference between being in a rocket ship and being on the surface of the Earth.