A New Idea.

The German Jewish theoretical physicist Albert Einstein formulated the special theory of relativity in 1905. Relativity is that area of physics that has to do with how observers in motion with respect to the phenomenon observed can account for their observations given that two different frames of reference (that of the observer and that of what is observed) are involved. Einstein labeled his 1905 theory "special" because it dealt with a limited range of phenomena, namely uniform linear motion at constant but high velocities. The consequences of special relativity became cornerstones of twentieth- century physics and displaced some of the central tenets of Newtonian physics that had been pillars of scientific thought for two centuries.

Einstein's Discoveries.

First, Einstein showed that time, space, and matter are interdependent, as expressed in the famous formula e = mc2, where e is energy, m...