How does the Universe Expands?
In Newton’s Principia Mathematica, he emphatically took the position that all motion takes place with respect to a system of absolute sp...
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How is the Structure of our Galaxy?
In his extraordinary text of 1610, the Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal Messenger, Galileo Galilei demonstrated that the Milky Way can ...
Sharing Life Could Be Easy
How could life be shared between planets in close proximity to one another? This question has received a greater insight thanks to new...
IS LENGTH CONTRACTION REAL
One important relativistic effect remains to be derived: the change in length of an object that is moving relative to the observer....
THE DECAY OF MUONS
Real experiments have been performed, however, which provide striking confirmation of time dilation. In this section, I describe an expe...
The Postulates of Relativity and Their Implications 3
THE RELATIVITY OF TIME: SIMULTANEITY The most profound conceptual implication of special relativity is the change it has brought abou...
The Postulates of Relativity and Their Implications 2
TIlE ROLE OF TIlE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IN THE GENESIS OF RELATIVITY Special relativity appears to be a classic case of a theor...
The Postulates of Relativity and Their Implications
THE POSTULATES In 1905 Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old technical expert third class at the Swiss patent office in Bern,...
THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT
THE ETHER The Michelson-Morley experiment occupies a special niche in the pantheon of relativity. Contrary to many accounts, the...
GALILEAN RELATIVITY 2
EVENTS, OBSERVERS, AND FRAMES OF REFERENCE We begin by defining some important terms. In relativity an event is any occurrence w...
Galilean Relativity
RELATIVITY AND COMMON SENSE A child walks along the floor of a moving train. Passengers on the train measure the child's spe...
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