relativity theory
Spacetime curvature explanation
Relativity theory is the framework in physics developed by Albert Einstein describing how space, time, mass, and energy relate.
Special relativity (1905) established that the speed of light is constant and that time dilates at high velocities.
General relativity (1915) extended this to gravity, describing it as curvature in spacetime caused by mass.
The theory predicts phenomena like black holes and gravitational waves: GPS satellites must account for relativistic effects.
- spacetimeMerged dimensional framework
- Albert EinsteinRenowned twentieth-century physicist
- tensorsMultidimensional geometric quantities
- time dilationClocks slow at speed
- black holesRegions of inescapable gravity
simultaneity · geodesics · spacetime curvature · rubber sheet · metrics · speed of light · light bending · GPS technology · twin paradox · wormholes · gravitational lensing · gravitational waves · mass · event horizons · coordinate systems · reference frame · inertia · gravity
- Science Historyscientific revolution, natural philosophy, scientific method, scientific journals, Royal Society
- Scientific BreakthroughsDNA discovery, Newtonian physics, plate tectonics, evolution, natural selection
- German ScienceAlbert Einstein, Max Planck, Carl Gauss, Einstein, Heisenberg
- scientific theoriesevolution, plate tectonics, quantum mechanics, natural selection, Darwinism
- relativityspacetime, time dilation, space-time, reference frame, E=mc2
relativity theoryquantum mechanics
Physics at nanoscopic scales
quantum theory · quantum physics · particle physics · string theory · standard model
relativity theoryNewtonian mechanics
Theory of motion and force
classical mechanics · Newtonian physics · absolute time · Euclidean geometry · classical physics
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