18A VERY SHORT PRIMER ON RELATIVITY
Albert Einstein was fascinated with the electromagnetic theory that we’ll discuss in Part III of this book. An effort to understand it led him to new ideas about space and time, collectively called special relativity, which he published in 1905, and which modified the ideas of Newtonian mechanics that had been in place for more than 200 years.
Special relativity departs from Newtonian physics in several ways, the most significant conceptual departure being the non-universality of time—that is, the idea that clocks in different patterns of motion evolve at different rates. The subject of special relativity deserves ...
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