(physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts

Usage examples of relativity.

In the physical framework of general relativity and in the corresponding mathematical framework of Riemannian geometry there is a single concept of distance, and it can acquire arbitrarily small values.

What mysteries has fiction produced to rival mind bogglers like deep geological time, a boundless universe, the big bang, relativity, quantum mechanics, the double helix, natural selection, mass extinction, the language instinct, and chaos theory?

It described special relativity as the invariance of physical laws under the Lorentz transformation, and my eyes were opened.

Existence and world whose complexity calls for the elucidating effort of the essay, but that in the last analysis always escapes, thus dooming novelistic thinking and any theory it can produce to insurmountable relativity and incompletion.

Through its principle of relativity, the special theory of relativity declares a democracy of observational vantage points: the laws of physics appear identical to all observers undergoing constant-velocity motion.

Cesium oscillators, hydrogen masers, satellites, and synchronizers opened an unlikely door to wonder - one which led him to relativity, radioactivity, and nuclear science.

The theoretical tools of quantum mechanics and general relativity allow us to understand and make testable predictions about physical happenings from the atomic and subatomic realms all the way through phenomena occurring on the scales of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and beyond to the structure of the whole universe itself.

But they use a solar barycentric frame for other planetary phenomena in order to get results that agree with relativity.

For science students and teachers, I hope this book will crystallize some of the foundational material of modern physics, such as special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics, while conveying the contagious excitement of researchers closing in on the long-sought unified theory.

Again, it is laughter which, among all his themes, expresses most sharply the very essence of human existence in its relativity, polysemy and ambiguity.

Through continual excursions into the semantic crossroads of each one of his words, Kundera reinvests the language with a little of its forgotten polysemy, relativity and laughter.

If we consider operating near the hot stars or near nebulae which throw off masses of hydrogen, the ramjet would really begin to take full advantage of the effects of Time Dilation in Relativity, as outlined earlier in this chapter.

Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity and gravitation, he and others used it in the second decade of this century to provide simplified theoretical models of the whole universe.

For though the early and spiritistic interpretations of relativity and the quantum theory had by now accustomed men of science to pay their respects to the religions, many of them were still liable to a certain asphyxia when they were actually within the precincts of sanctity.

Theory of Relativity into Chaucerian English or to describe a supersonic aircraft in vocabulary derived from Middle High German.