My first book of relativity / Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón & Eduard Altarriba.
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TextPublisher: Lewes, East Sussex : Button Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 47 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781787080324
- 1787080323
- 9781787080331
- 1787080331
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Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the cornerstones of modern physics but it requires a total rethink of our notions of time and space. Strange things happen in a relative universe: length and time are not fixed and depend upon your frame of reference. If you move at high speed, time slows down, space contracts and weight increases. So a period of time for someone on Earth that lasts for hundreds of years may only be a couple of hours for someone traveling in a rocket close to the speed of light. It's mind-boggling stuff, but the theory of relativity has a real impact on our world today.