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The theory of relativity is not something that should be taken lightly. Their is two types of theories. The general and the special theories. One of the big things that you need to know is what and how inertia works. The special theory has two parts the speed of light is the same for all observers, whatever their relative motion. The laws of nature are the same in all inertial frames, where the laws are understood to include those described by Maxwell. The general theory was created to modify Newton's law of gravitation so that it would agree with special relativity. General theories explain the behavior of matter, energy, and even time and space. In the first scenario, the ship is at rest. The animals move about naturally, and the two friends throw the ball to each other and jump about. The friends observe that the flying animals fly with equal speed to all sides of the cabin, the fish swim in all directions, and the drops of water fall straight downward. When one friend throws the ball to the other, the effort required for the throw does not depend on the direction of the throw. When either person jumps forward, the effort required for the jump does not depend on the direction of the jump. In this theory, matter and energy distort (change the shape of) space-time, and the distortion is experienced as gravity. A more common -- but less precise -- way of explaining the distortion is "Mass curves space." The light-bending effect is small, but Einstein calculated that it could be observed during a solar eclipse Einstein noted that there was no evidence for the existence of the ether. The principle of inertia is also known as Newton's first law of motion. It is one of three laws of motion discovered by the English scientist Isaac Newton. Those laws were published in 1687 in Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), a work usually called simply Principia or Principia mathematica. (NASA) Through my understanding of the theory of relativity I conclude a couple of things. One is that the theory of relativity can be described both by word and mathematically.

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Lawson, Robert. "Einstein, Albert. 1920. Relativity: The Special and General Theory." __Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more__. 5 Feb. 2009 .