special relativity
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Since special relativity is based on standard mathematical assumptions of continuity, this is not surprising. — Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘Is Infinity Real?’," 30 June 2016 Soon after special relativity, French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed another revolutionary theory. — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, "The Eternal Quest for Aether, the Cosmic Stuff That Never Was," 19 Oct. 2018 Las Vegas was founded the year Einstein formulated his theory of special relativity. — BostonGlobe.com, "15 things to love and 11 things to loathe about Boston," 2 July 2019 General relativity grew out of Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which describes how the speed of light (in a vacuum) can always be constant. — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, "How to Understand Einstein's Theory of Gravity," 24 May 2019 But such a phenomenon should be impossible, because Einstein’s theory of special relativity shows that no influence can propagate faster than light. — Quanta Magazine, "Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World," 25 June 2018 The possibility of time travel stems from Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which, loosely speaking, describes the relationship between space and time. — Popular Mechanics, "Will We Ever Be Able to Time Travel Into the Past?," 24 Dec. 2018 Scientists started to abandon aether theory, and in its wake, an alternative model was proposed: Einstein’s theory of special relativity. — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, "The Eternal Quest for Aether, the Cosmic Stuff That Never Was," 19 Oct. 2018 The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometers) per second, and, according to Einstein's theory of special relativity, that's the top speed for anything traveling in our universe. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, "The Stuff Falling into This Black Hole Is Moving at Almost 56,000 Miles a Second!," 25 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'special relativity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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