![]() ![]() ![]() The special theory of relativity was based on two main postulates: first, that the speed of light is constant for all observers and second, that observers moving at constant speeds should be subject to the same physical laws. ![]() Einstein sought to explain situations in which Newtonian physics might fail to deal successfully with phenomena, and in so doing proposed revolutionary changes in human concepts of time, space and gravity. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is actually two separate theories: his special theory of relativity, postulated in the 1905 paper, The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and his theory of general relativity, an expansion of the earlier theory, published as The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity in 1916. ![]()
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