How did Einstein s special and general theories of relativity come about?

Updated on science 2024-05-27
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Reading your question reminds me of a book I read when I was a teenager, and the book is entitled The Principles of Relativity. The first two articles seem to be Einstein's, which are very long and deal mainly with the relativity of motion, and thus to the relativity of time. Many of the articles in the middle talk about the many interesting phenomena produced by the speed of time and light in motion.

    The last article describes the life of Albert Einstein and how the theory of relativity came about. In fact, Einstein thought and studied the relativity of the motion of time and space when he was in college, and after graduating from college, he seems to have completed the first draft of the theory of relativity. At the same time, use it as a stepping stone to the job search.

    Obviously, although Einstein was a genius, his theory was simply fantastical at the time when the absolute view of time and space ruled. There was no way, Einstein had to ask for talent in a very inconspicuous departmental patent office, as a job to accept the registration of patent applications, and now ** introduced as a clerk, but in fact he is an idle temporary worker. In this way, Einstein looked at the empty hall every day, but his mind was thinking about time and space.

    Probably, great men always meet noble people to help them in difficult times. A famous mathematician had a discerning eye and found a spark of ideas from Einstein's **, but also found that Einstein's theory was like a bunch of very good building materials due to the lack of support from mathematical theories, and did not form an edifice. So, the mathematician perfected the calculation and proof of the mathematical theory for Einstein's **, and recommended this ** to a well-known scientific journal.

    Unfortunately, the mathematician did not sign his name, perhaps because Einstein's idea was too peculiar, or because the mathematician did not have the courage to fill in his name. After that, Einstein had been helped by this mathematician when he perfected his theory, and when the mathematician died, Einstein proposed many theories, perhaps without the help of new mathematicians, or no one understood, and for other reasons, on his deathbed, he burned these unpublished theoretical manuscripts. Remember that there is a saying that great men stand on the shoulders of giants.

    Albert Einstein was a great man who stood on the shoulders of a mathematician. <>

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Newton discovered that gravity was inspired by Apple, and Einstein's theory of relativity was the accurate calculation of Mercury's perihelion precession and Einstein's perception of four-dimensional space, breaking the gravitational force, proposing that gravity is not generated by objects, but by objects distorting space, thus proposing the general theory of relativity, when gravity was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, ordinary people did not have any understanding of four-dimensional space at all, and the general theory of relativity was too advanced, and put forward seven major predictions, which were finally confirmed by science, We found out that Einstein is really too powerful, and it is really not an exaggeration to say that Einstein is an alien.

    The water flows downward, but at high tide the water is sucked up. The earth faces the moon at one point to produce a high tide, and the other side of the earth facing away from the moon also occurs a high tide, this gravitational effect can be observed by the general public, in the face of objective facts, if you use the general theory of relativity to explain the reason, we are convinced, the ordinary people do not understand, how can we believe your truth.

    Theory needs to be linked to practice, and reality is like the foundation of a house, and if the house loses its foundation, it will collapse. <>

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    This person's theory is wrong if he thinks logically, don't mention him...

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Einstein established the special theory of relativity based on two basic principles, one is the principle of relativity, that is, in any inertial frame of reference, all the laws of nature are the same; The second is the principle of invariance of the speed of light.

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