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The Therory of Relativity = **

 Everybody knows Albert Einstein was one of the world’s smartest men. Without him many of today’s ideas and views would not even exist. In 1905 Einstein developed a special theory involving the speed of light and relativity which was the Special Theory of relativity. Again in 1915 Einstein developed another theory involving gravity and inertia. Einstein changed how the world thought with the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity, and providing information for other scientists to branch from.

** The special theory of relativity involved the speed of light and relativity. He believed that with a constant speed of light length, mass and even time were distorted. He believed that if you traveled at the speed of light around space for a year, your friends on earth would be much older then when you left, thus a change in time. Moving clocks would be measured to tick more slowly than an observer's "stationary" clock. When at the speed of light all different types of objects would appear bigger. **

 Time is believed to be slowed and length to be distorted near black holes.

Relativity in Everyday Life -

Although many people may not think the theory of relativity is present in everyday life, it exists in many different parts. The applications to nuclear energy production of the global positioning system (GPS) satellites around the earth indicate an effect of relativity on our day to day activities. Nuclear energy has helped remove a portion of our reliance on non-renewable resources for our energy needs. And as those needs increase and our resources are consumed, we will be constantly drawn towards the advantages nuclear energy has already fulfilled for other parts of the world to countries who use it as their primary use of natural resource. It is also difficult to imagine the military and combat today without using images of nuclear warheads and nuclear-powered submarines. These technologies rely on relativity through GPS as well.

Nuclear power is an exapmle of how relativity connects to everyday life

Work Cited

Lightman, Alan. "NOVA | Einstein's Big Idea | Relativity (Lightman Essay) | PBS." __PBS__. 5 Feb. 2009 < http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/relativity/>.

This website helps explain the creation of einsteins theory of relativity. It focuses on the role of gravity in relativity and how the creation of black holes comes into effect.

"Theory: Special Relativity (SLAC VVC)." __SLAC Public Website Server__. 31 Oct. 2008. 5 Feb. 2009 .

This website shows how the speed of light is essential in the theory of relativity. It also shows how physics is observed and how it is the same for all observers. It also touches on points of time dilation and time contraction.