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And relativity is just the idea that the laws of physics are the same in every inertial reference frame.
by eutectic 10y ago
And relativity is just the idea that the laws of physics are the same in every inertial reference frame.
- rayuela 10y agoTo compare this to the introduction of relativity is just silly.
- jacquesm 10y agoLess silly than it looks at first sight. After all, for day-to-day use (except for GPS I guess, and most people probably don't even realize it would not work without a correction for relativistic effects) relativity is very little gain over classical Newtonian physics and a lot more complex to work out from a mathematical point of view. So even though 'that's how it really should work' we tend to take the shortcut because it is 'good enough' for almost all use cases. Which caused us to miss the wood for the trees for a long time. This minor change is what enables learning in the first place, and as such it could easily be a game changer.
- posterboy 10y agoNuclear reactors?
- eutectic 10y agoMaking an analogy is not the same as implying equivalence.