What Is Relativity? by Landau L. D.; Rumer G. B.; & G. B. Rumer

Author:Landau, L. D.; Rumer, G. B.; & G. B. Rumer [Landau, L. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1890361
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Science Triumphs

The discovery that time is relative brought about a profound revolution in man’s picture of nature. It represents one of the greatest victories of the human mind over the distorted notions acquired over the ages. It can be compared only with the revolution in human ideas brought about by the discovery of the fact that the Earth is a sphere.

The discovery that time is relative was made in 1905 by the greatest physicist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein (1879 to 1955). This discovery placed the 26-year-old Einstein among the Titans of human thought. We remember him as the equal of Copernicus and Isaac Newton, those other pioneers of new paths in science. V. I. Lenin called Albert Einstein one of the “greatest transformers of our knowledge of nature.”

The science of the relativity of time and the consequences following from it is usually called the Theory of Relativity. It should not be confused with the principle of the relativity of motion.

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