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Relativity

Albert Einstein

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1916
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 180

A physicist lays out, for the general reader, why there is no single true motion or single true time, only measurements that change with the observer, and how gravity itself is the curving of space and time.

Events which are simultaneous with reference to the embankment are not simultaneous with respect to the train, and vice versa.
Relativity, Albert Einstein

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