Relativity

[wormholeman]

I would like to know why people find relativity

interesting. I find relativity interesting

because It has a lot to do with fact that

its meaning proses to relation. There are

so many words in any language that are

related to one another. Example: relation,

relative, relativity, relationship, relate,

and relative. I think that is awsome!

But It seems to me that the more

it is cut down to size, relative would

be more of an accurate definition.

That mabey why Einstien chose

to call it relativity.

 

Any thoughts?

[ecoli]

Because he's theory was about how time is relative, in a relationship to speed.

[danny8522003]

And how motion needs to be defined by a specific frame of reference.

[wormholeman]

I sheeee.

[ecoli]

you know, you're questions would probably be better answered by looking up old threads or a google search.

[starbug1]

Is this a question of relativity, or semantics?

[wormholeman]

Is this a question of relativity, or semantics?

 

Only Relativity. I should have rephrased the question. I ment to ask why you (the individual), not people in general, are interested in relativity.

 

edit: Thats why at the beginning of this thread I explained why I am interested in it.

[Galileo]

That mabey why Einstien chose to call it relativity.

Einstein wasn't the first to call it relativity. Einstein learned of the relativity principle from reading the works of Henri Poincaré.

 

http://www-cosmosaf.iap.fr/Poincare-RR3A.htm

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Relativity/Special_Relativity/

[wormholeman]

Thanks Galilao

[bharatiyedu]

HI,\

 

einstein is very smart guy. i quiet like his theory of relativity but i odnt think the definition is more accurete and the way they named it should be different.