relativity Tag

08 Apr The Principle of Relativity – The Easy Way

Posted at 04:17h in Relativity by Rodney Brooks 0 Comments

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In the entire history of physics there is no equation more famous than e = mc2. This relationship between mass (m) and energy (e) was derived in 1905 by Albert Einstein from his Principle of Relativity. The derivation wasn’t easy and merited a paper on...

27 Feb Space-Time Curvature and Relativity

Posted at 22:13h in Quantum Field Theory by Rodney Brooks 0 Comments

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General Relativity is the name given to Einstein’s theory of gravity that described in Chapter 2. As the theory is usually presented, it describes gravity as a curvature in four-dimensional space-time. Now this is a concept far beyond the reach of ordinary folks.. Just the...