ACCORDING to the principle of relativity in its most extended sense, the space and time of physics are merely a mental scaffolding in which for our own convenience we locate the observable ...

THE author of this work has made up his mind in advance that the question of relativity is a philosophical problem. It is therefore necessary for him to dismiss contemptuously all the history of ...

Einstein's general relativity is an exceptionally elegant and conceptually coherent theory all of which stems from a single, simple organizing principle.

What is relativity? Succinctly put, it is the notion that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. We here on Earth obey the same laws of light and gravity as someone in a far off corner of ...

But for Newton, the principle of relativity is not a good thing at all, it’s an annoyance. Newton believed in absolute space and time, and thus in absolute motion.

The principle of relativity -- that information does not travel faster than light -- is a pillar of modern physics, unlikely to be ever challenged.

In his 1632 book “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems,” the astronomer Galileo Galilei first described the principle of relativity – the idea that the universe should behave the ...

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Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College in the United States Siddhartha Jayanti asked how the ...