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Explaining E = mc2
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Understand Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, about what is absolute and not relative
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invariance of the speed of light
Newtonian reference frames
simultaneous events
length contraction and time dilation
curved space-time
black hole in M87
experimental evidence for general relativity
Explaining E = mc2
curvature and parallel motion
Understand Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, about what is absolute and not relative
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Know the different kinds of dimensions and how they are different from one another
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
Sir Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose
British mathematician
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Russian mathematical physicist

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