Albert Einstein - Tristan Layer FINAL

traveling at the same speed of
the car, e.g. 100km/h. You and
the other passengers feel
stationary in the car, however
you are also traveling at 100km/
h. If anyone were observing
standing outside the car, they
would see you traveling at
1 0 0 k m / h . B a s e d o n t h i s
information, it shows that no
place on earth is truly stationary.
With this information, Einstein
was able to develop his theory of
relativity. For Einstein’s theory to
work you must be “traveling in a
straight line at a constant speed.
As soon as you accelerate or
curve – or do anything that
changes the nature of the motion
in any way – special relatively
ceases to apply” (Zimmerman
Jones & Robbins, 2009).
The major principles of Eisten’s
theory consist of:
The principal of relativity: “the
laws of physics don’t change”.
(Zimmerman Jones & Robbins,
2009)
The principle of the speed of
light: “the speed of light is the
same for all observers, regardless
of their motion relative to the
light source”. (Zimmerman Jones
& Robbins, 2009)
Below you will see a picture of
two gentlemen looking at a laser
bouncing off a mirror. The one
wearing blue is looking at the
laser while traveling in the same
vehicle at the laser and the
mirror. However, the gentleman
wearing red is traveling in a
different vehicle and sees the
beam travel on an angle because
he is traveling on a different path
than the first gentleman. This
shows “that the time the beam
takes to go from the laser to the
mirror to the detector must also
be different for both parties so
that they both agree on the
speed of light” (Zimmerman
Jones & Robbins, 2009). This is
known as Time Dilation “where
the time on ship moving very
quickly appears to pass slower
than on earth” (Zimmerman
Jones & Robbins, 2009). Based
on this information, Einstein was
able to prove that space and
time have a direct correlation
between each other.
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