Tag Tag Special relativity

Authors

Theoretical physicist · 1879-1955
Albert Einstein

Physicist whose theories of relativity transformed understanding of space, time, gravity and the universe.

Works

Albert Einstein · 1920
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Einstein’s own account of special and general relativity, written for readers without training in the mathematics of theoretical physics.

Albert Einstein · 1905
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies

How measurements of time and distance depend on the observer's motion, and why the speed of light is the same for everyone.

Albert Einstein · 1905
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy Content?

The argument that a body giving off energy loses mass, and that mass and energy are therefore two measures of the same thing.

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