<p align="right">Last Update: <font color="#4f81bd">November, 25, 2024</font></p> ## BIG IDEAS - Published in 1905 by [[Albert Einstein]]. - Special relativity provides a new invariant (everyone measures the same value), called the [[Spacetime|spacetime]] interval, which combines distances in space and in time. --- >[!note] >Einstein, in The Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity, Ann. Phys. 49 (1916), wrote "The word 'special' is meant to intimate that the principle is restricted to the case." ### Slide Deck <div style="position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 56.2500%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;"> <iframe loading="lazy" style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0;margin: 0;" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAGaEIARZdg/1bkbPD9scYce61bd3iVONw/view?embed" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" allow="fullscreen"> </iframe> </div> ### Related Topics --- [[Home|Home]] | [[The Universe]] | [[Special Relativity]] | [[Length Contraction]] | [[Spacetime]] | [[Mass-Energy Equivalence]]