Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 93% confidenceA Fields medallist explaining the history and logic of the cosmic distance ladder; real reasoning from simple observations rather than asserted numbers.
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Terence Tao and Grant Sanderson walk through how humans measured the size of the Earth, Moon, Sun and the distances to stars and galaxies, rung by rung.
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