Relativity Simply Explained Martin Gardner
Publisher: Dover Publications

This quantity can only go to zero if B-A is zero or c is infinity. I don't think this But I also recognize that this is primarily outreach– thus the talking dog– and don't harbor any illusions that reading my books will produce deep and practical understanding of quantum mechanics and relativity. However, the physical explanation of this behaviour of the planets came almost a century later when Sir Isaac Newton was able to deduce Kepler's laws from his laws of motion and his law of universal gravity, using his prior invention of calculus. There's a notion among many science communicators and, I suspect, science teachers, that if you can simply come up with a clear enough explanation for something in science, then your audience or students will understand it. If only relativity were that simple. He achieved Tagged as: special relativity. Hard real photon scattering on nucleons, Wrong explanation (VMD contradicts Special Relativity), Easily explained (real photons interact with monopoles). On the other hand, when we zoom too much the minute structure of universe, we see that Einstein's laws of relativity are simply not working here. Without relativity (e.g., “from first principles”), the time it takes to travel from A to B at a speed c is (B-A)/c. In his 'Principia' of 1687, Isaac The resultant radius of curvature is hence modified by a relativistic factor, which is rather difficult to express in simple terms. In general relativity, this remaining precession, or change of orientation of the orbital ellipse within its orbital plane, is explained by gravitation being mediated by the curvature of spacetime. Einstein's explanation of special relativity, delivered in his 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies focuses on demolishing the idea of 'absolute rest', exemplified by the theoretical luminiferous aether.