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The Special Theory of Relativity Explained

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Uploaded by on Jun 26, 2008

Just what the title says.

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  • @2:24

    "...physicists proposed...",

    Albert Einstein proposed that.

  • @LeconsdAnalyse

    Actually, almost nothing of the "Special Theory of Relativity" was Einstein's own idea. He took pieces of other peoples thoeries and put them together in his own concoction. Hendrik Lorentz was the first to propse length contraction.

  • @LogicSolver Hello.

    Yes. And the subject of your clip is about "..his own concoction..".

  • @LeconsdAnalyse

    That doesn't change anything. I stand by my words.

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  • thanks! great!!

  • @coma22309 NO. That follows (linear approximation) from Hooke`s law! It is called the energy of vibration about a fixed point. This has nothing to do with SR.

  • @coma22309

    Well, I certainly would, but I don't really know what the scientific establishment says anymore, and I'm not convinced it knows either.

  • @LogicSolver thanks for that i appreciate it one more question would you say that a particle has kinetic energy just because it vibrates

  • @coma22309

    There's more than one way to answer that question. First, the formula in question is M = Mo / (1 - V^2 / C^2). As V approaches C, the number by which Mo is divided becomes smaller and smaller, thereby making M bigger and bigger. So if V were to become equal to C, it would mean M grew beyond infinity, which makes no sense.

  • im not studying physics so my knowledge is very small i was reading a book and it says the kinetic energy of a moving mass must equal to infinity in order to reach speed of light and it was talking about some formula can someone please explain to me in detail (bcause my knowledge is quit primitive) how the formula works out

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