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100 Years of Special Relativity
phrotoma writes "Wikipedia notes in their Selected Anniversaries section that today marks
the 100th anniversary of Albert Eintein's publication of the third of his four Annus Mirabilis Papers entitled On the Electrodynamics of
Moving Bodies; the seminal work that introduced the concepts which would come to be known as Special Relativity. This
event is also being commemorated in a UN endorsed celebration of physics: World Physics
Year 2005 with talks and events at public schools, museums, and universities the world over."
100 years according to which observer?
I already read about this tomorrow.
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100 years? I don't understand. That paper was published just two years ago, right before I embarked on my intersteller voyage travelling near the speed of light. I've only been gone two years, so clearly one of us has calendar issues.
Leif Ericson discovered it hundreds of years earlier, and the Native Relativians were already there anyway. Their boats were just to slow to test the theory.
Eurocentric insensitive clods!
sigs, as if you care.
You'd think it wouldn't be considered quite so Special any more.
You mean Maxwell's Daemon?
This is an incredible time to be alive and watching the strides made by physics. Recent developments in the creation of new forms of matter, and the coming experimental fusion reactor in France make the future hopefully brighter for man and mankind.
Lets hope we don't end up with a "Black Mesa" incident...
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
... and being ONLY a "theory," won't be taught in Kansas public schools.
Einstein is working in a patent office
Smith: I'd like to patent this. I call it "Smith's Theory of Relativity"
Einstein browses through Smith's work, nods approvingly and then kills Smith with the overhead window door
-everphilski-
Well said mate, well said!
See, there you have it!
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Half of the native residents of West Virginia are filing a lawsuit against the Einstein estate for his use of the phrase "It's all relative" when he was traveling through the state and asked what he thought of the state compared to New Jersey.
OK, I just heard about this, it's bad enough that I have to drag around a separate PDA, phone, and laptop - now I find out I'm dragging space and time around with me as well?
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Just a shout-out to all my old sci.physics homies.
(Mods - this is actually on topic. You need to know the history of certain Usenet cranks to get it though)
do you think he'd be any less dead if he'd been a billionaire?