In Nature for October 14, 1967, Professor H. Dingle argued that the special theory of relativity is incorrect, and Professor W. H. McCrea put an opposing view. Some correspondence on the same ...

Einstein received the Nobel Prize for one of the other ideas, but the special theory of relativity has since become the most well-known, perhaps of his career or even the entire field of physics!

For example, a person standing on a train platform ... Einstein knew that his theory of special relativity was partial. It ...

it’s worth a refresher before we discuss the theory of financial relativity. There’s a famous example of his theory using a train. Imagine that you are playing ping pong on a train and the ...

Special' means ‘in certain circumstances ... Click or tap on the labels below to discover each physicist's example of why general relativity continues to help explain the Universe around ...

Special relativity tells us motion warps space and ... what happened in the very earliest instants of the big bang, for example, when the universe was very small and gravity was very strong.

one may wonder if other relativistic effects concerning other fundamental physical properties can be predicted by special relativity. For example, in spite of intense research in the field of ...