Special relativity

Frederick Sanger was born to Cicely Sanger and Frederick Sanger on August 13, 1918 in Rendcomb, England. At age 18 Sanger went against his family and decided to become a scientist instead of a doctor like his father (Jeffers, 2017). He attended St. John’s College in Cambridge and majored in biochemistry. After he graduated he married Margaret Joan Howe at age 22 and had three children with her. He later came back and worked with Albert Neuberger in order to study the metabolism of…

wondered what it would be like to ride his bike on a beam of light, 10 years later he came up with a special theory of relativity, which lead him to find out that light always travels at the same speed (which is 186,000 miles/second). Albert Einstein’s career, beginning with an extensive education through physical science, had a lasting influence on the photoelectric effect, Special/General Theory of Relativity and the concept of mass-energy equivalence. Albert Einstein was very curious…

In the following, I will argue that Einstein’s discovery of the theory of special relativity was ultimately positive in terms of its benefits. First, Einstein’s discovery changed our understanding of space and time. Second, Einstein’s discovery has a positive effect on people’s daily lives, for example, the global positioning system (GPS). Third, Einstein’s theory of special relativity is a scientific theory, which according to dictionary.com is “a coherent group of propositions formulated to…

distant star it takes at least 81,000 years to get to them with our current technology. But is it possible to get faster by using the laws of relativity to bend space-time to our will or to make the journey to many possible planets that can support live like they do in science fiction stories like Star Wars or Star Trek? Will the laws of special and general relativity have limits that we can overcome? With our dying earth caused by our human mass consumption of fossil fuels are ruining our…

solids when they are struck by light. A third paper, which had its beginnings in an essay I wrote at age 16, contained the “special theory of relativity.” I showed that time and motion are relative to the observer. If the speed of light is constant and natural laws are the same everywhere in the universe. The fourth paper was a mathematical addition to the special theory of relativity. Here I presented my most famous formula, E = mc2, known as the energy-mass relation. What it says is that the…

mph, moves a little slower than those of the clocks on Earth. Time dilation is also the precise and accurate mathematical relationship in slowing down of clocks due to the high speeds. Time Dilation is the effect of the Einstein’s theory of relativity. It is for making the ticking of clock on the space stations than those on the normal one in the Earth. It is the difference of an elapsed time between two particular events that are precisely measured by the observers. If you try to…

was cut short when my father woke me up for school. It turned out that my singular achievement had merely been part of a dream, a dream which my unconcious created from my fascination with the special relativity unit in the physics class I took at Pomona College. Perhaps the strongest lure of special relativity is its way of contradicting the most fundamental scientific observations. Concepts I always assumed to be true were proven wrong by Albert Einstein nearly a hundred years ago. Is…

Einstein (March 14, 1879 to April 18, 1955) did many things during his lifetime he had many accomplishments and awards. Albert Einstein is highly respected by many people. Albert Einstein was physicist and mathematician who developed the theory of relativity. In 1921 Einstein won a Nobel Prize for physics and the photoelectric effect. The next decade, he moved to the United States after being tracked by Nazis. He also had a major impact on atomic energy. Later Albert Einstein worked on unified…

speed limit, whereas gravity does not; extremely heavy objects possess gravity can surpass even the quickest motions. A black hole is the only exception; this is a case where gravity is out of control. Later, a new aspect was added to his theory of relativity involving the concept of dark energy. Einstein’s equation can be reversed to allow for a force opposite of gravity, a force that repels objects called dark energy. The anti-gravity like force of dark energy supposedly acts as a devise to…

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” -Stephen Hawkings. This is exactly what Stephen Hawking is working to do by piecing together parts of the universe. Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. When Hawking was young, he showed a strong passion for science and the sky. When he was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. ALS is a very progressive disease…