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."

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100 Years

[Inkieminstrel]

100 years according to which observer?

Re:100 Years

[millennial]

Due to special relativity, I accuse you of stealing my joke and posting it before I could.

Re:100 Years

[Black Parrot]

> The first five posts are all riffs on the same theme -- dilation of time. Does that say more about the level of education among Slashdotters, or about our lack of creativity, or both?

Maybe it's just one post arriving via gravitational lensing.

Pffft

[kaellinn18]

I already read about this tomorrow.

100 Years of Special Relativity

[Citizen of Earth]

You'd think it wouldn't be considered quite so Special any more.

But it's ONLY a "theory" ...

[YetAnotherName]

... and being ONLY a "theory," won't be taught in Kansas public schools.

Obligatory Family Guy Quote

[everphilski]

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-

Re:Obvious oversimplification

[A beautiful mind]

Re:Obvious oversimplification (Score:-1, Redundant)
by Moderatbastard (808662) on 2005-06-30 17:49 (#12950737)
About 5 posts saying more or less the same thing within about a 2 minute interval.

Let the 'redundant' modding and subsequent bitching begin.

Well said mate, well said!

See, there you have it!