Question
What was Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity?

Answer

  • One of the famous papers of $1905$ was Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, according to which time and distance are not absolute.
  • For example two perfectly accurate clocks would not continue to show the same time if they came together again after a journey if one of them has been moving very fast relative to the other.
  • From this came the world’s most famous formula which described the relationship between mass and energy: $\mathrm{E}=\mathrm{mc}^2$ where E stands for energy, m for mass and c for the speed of the light in a vacuum (about 300,000 km/s).

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