Tag: Special Relativity
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How Special is Relativity?
On a warm, sunny evening in the spring of 1905, the notorious Albert Einstein embarked on a fateful ride home. As his tramcar sped away from a turret clock in the distance, the theory of special relativity was born. Einstein imagined that if the tram was to travel away from the clock near the speed…
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What do plants, the human heart, and special relativity have in common?
The beauty of mathematics is in the complexity that arises from simple rules. Take the following sequence of numbers: {1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …}. To get this sequence, start with the number 1, add 0 and you get the next number in the sequence: 1. Take 1 and add the previous number…