Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

100 Years of Special Relativity

Posted by Zonk on from the much-better-than-the-regular-kind dept.

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."

7 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. 100 years? by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's purely arbitrary to choose now as the 100th anniversary. Surely it depends on how fast you've been travelling?

    --
    It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
    1. Re:100 years? by zkn · · Score: 0, Redundant

      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.

  2. Obvious oversimplification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...today marks the 100th anniversary...

    In what reference frame?

  3. Intentional? by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "I guess it's all relative."

    Cute.

  4. Re:Pffft by lisaparratt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    These dupes are getting so tiresome!

  5. Is this why old movies look so jerky? by timothy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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
  6. Obligitory joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why did Einstein marry his cousin? Because he postulated that men have an attraction to the breasts of women in their own family. He called it "The Theory of Relative Titty."

    Sorry. It was from this month's Playboy. And yes, I read the articles.