How to Use special relativity in a Sentence

special relativity

noun

• In special relativity, the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit to the universe.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• The turn of the 20th century was a heady time for physics: In the span of just over a decade, the world was introduced to quantum physics, special relativity and the electron — the first evidence that atoms had divisible parts.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• Our route into special relativity might be thought of as top-down, taking the idea of a unified space-time seriously from the get-go and seeing what that implies.
  — Sean Carroll, Quanta Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• More specifically, though, special relativity states that no object with mass can match (or exceed) the speed of light.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2013
• The arena of special relativity is today known as Minkowski space-time.
  — Sean Carroll, Quanta Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• That's the key idea of Einstein's theory of special relativity.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
• Each of these seemed to satisfy the requirements of both quantum mechanics and special relativity — two of nature’s acid tests.
  — George Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 29 Feb. 2020
• In 1865, physicist James Clerk Maxwell drew the connection between these twin forces, setting the stage for Einstein to form his famed theory of special relativity.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2019
• In 1865, physicist James Clerk Maxwell drew the connection between these twin forces, setting the stage for Einstein to form his famed theory of special relativity.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• In other words, special relativity lays out important ideas such as the speed of light being the same for all observers, and the laws of physics holding true regardless of reference frame (e.g. on Earth or in a speeding rocket ship).
  — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2022
• In 1905, Einstein outlined his theory of special relativity, which established that the laws of physics apply throughout the universe, the speed of light is constant and nothing travels fasters than light.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020
• Indeed, Einstein was not the first person to wonder if time is an illusion — and his own theory of special relativity may make the statement plausible.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Entanglement seems to violate special relativity, which says that effects cannot propagate faster than the speed of light.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2022
• There are rules for how space and time transform in an observer-dependent fashion, and that was just in special relativity: for a Universe where gravitation didn’t exist.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• From discovering that Earth is a sphere to the theory of special relativity, science has readjusted our grasp of reality time and again.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2015
• These fields allow particles to appear and disappear, all in accordance with both the strict dictates of Einstein’s special relativity and the probabilistic laws of the quantum world.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
• The speed of light limit is baked into the most fundamental relationship in the universe: the relationship between space and time as expressed through special relativity.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the grand old man of Dutch physics, who had anticipated much of the development of special relativity two decades earlier and whom Einstein himself held in the highest regard.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
• The two appear to behave the same way to within a tiny uncertainty, and in a convoluted way the result supports the foundation of Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
• Compare this with the ground rules, or axioms, of Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which was as revolutionary in its way as quantum mechanics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
• To Einstein, via its challenge to locality, this instantaneous nature represented a threat to one of his key principles of special relativity : the fact that nothing can travel faster than light.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
• The traveler uses the length-contraction equation of special relativity to measure distance.
  — Ronald C. Lasky, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
• Our idea is to take advantage of these features of special relativity to observe familiar objects in the relativistic camera’s different spacetime rest frame.
  — Scientific American, 3 July 2018
• 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, 24 May 2019
• But the acceleration incurred by the traveler is incidental, and the paradox can be unraveled by special relativity alone.
  — Ronald C. Lasky, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2014
• In 1905, Albert Einstein published the first part of his relativity theory, known as special relativity.
  — Matthew Pillsbury, Travel, 28 Dec. 2020
• Not everyone takes that for granted though, as evidenced by Albert Einstein, whose 1905 theory of special relativity stated that time is an illusion that moves relative to an observer.
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
• Las Vegas was founded the year Einstein formulated his theory of special relativity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• 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, 24 Dec. 2018
• In this vein, Weinberg reimagined quantum field theory from a different perspective, asserting the primacy of special relativity, quantum mechanics and the notion of particles as a starting point.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021

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