NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Patent Office, Thought Experiment, Special Relativity
15 Feb 2016
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Video worksheet: inside einstein"s mind https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=4gulseik31a: what elements of einstein"s personality and early life contributed to his development as a great scientist? (7) Newton (200 years old)- matter moving, motion governed by same force i. e. gravity speed not fixed. This idea is called the failure of simultaneity: simultaneity and the flow of time depend on the speed in which you are travelling. This idea was eventually published as the theory of _special relativity_: this theory did not take _acceleration/ gravity (acts instantaneously)_into account, einstein"s happiest thought: if gravity and acceleration _feel_ the same, perhaps they _are_ the same.
