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March 2010
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special relativity

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The Institute of Physics and Rambert Dance Company are planning to celebrate the theories of Einstein through dance.

Tags: physics : dance : Einstein : photon : Brownian motion : einstein year : rambert dance company : special relativity


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Sonia Buckley travels through higher dimensions

Tags: geometry : special relativity : tesseract


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Most of us are aware that Einstein proved that everything was relative ... or something like that. But we go no further, believing that we aren't clever enough to understand what he did. Hardeep Aiden sets out to persuade readers that they too can understand an idea as elegantly simple as it was original.

Tags: Einstein : special relativity : time dilation : relative velocity : inertial frame : muon : twin paradox : relativity


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Einstein proved correct, ..... again!

Tags: Doppler shift : Einstein : special relativity : time dilation


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Mathematicians give green light for time machine

Tags: physics : general relativity : special relativity : time dilation : relativity : time travel


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And what are gravitational waves?

Tags: gravity : cosmology : astronomy : gravitational wave detector : black hole : general relativity : Einstein : Newton : special relativity : gravitational wave