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special relativity [′spesh·əl rel·ə′tiv·əd·ē] (relativity) The division of relativity theory which relates the observations of observers moving with constant relative velocities and postulates that natural laws are the same for all such observers. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Establishment-supported defenders of the Big Bang theory and Einstein's special theory of relativity have proven similarly inhospitable to independent thinking. Einstein's special theory of relativity unifies space and time as aspects of a single, four-dimensional entity known as space-time. According to Kenneth Brecher of Boston University, these observations provide the most stringent test to date of a central postulate in Einstein's special theory of relativity. |
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