Special Relativity

Accepted · 1905

Status: Accepted
Year: 1905

Summary

Drop the aether, keep the speed of light constant for everyone, and space and time have to bend to comply. Simultaneity becomes relative, and mass and energy turn out to be the same quantity.

Equations

Lorentz Factor Mass–Energy Equivalence Lorentz Transformations

Proponent

Hendrik Lorentz Henri Poincaré Albert Einstein

Referenced by

equation

Lorentz Factor Lorentz Transformations Mass–Energy Equivalence

researcher

Albert Einstein Hendrik Lorentz Henri Poincaré

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