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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."
In what reference frame?
Cute.
These dupes are getting so tiresome!
I wonder if the laws of physics prior to special relativity account for all the strange time relationships you can see in old movies, where people seem to move in rapidly varying relationships with respect to time. Thanks, Einstein, for making everyone move at a more predictable pace -- I figure things like growing seasons and skiing on moguls must have been much harder with the old physics.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Reletive to what?
If we are speaking in terms of the Earths timeline then it is 100years.
It doesn't make sence to assume that anything else.