Learn About Einstein's Relativity

Understand special and general relativity — how time dilates, space curves, and gravity warps the fabric of spacetime. Explore the theory that revolutionized modern physics.

Einstein published special relativity in 1905 as part of his "miracle year" of four groundbreaking papers, establishing that the speed of light is constant for all observers and that mass and energy are interchangeable via E=mc² — an equation that would later explain the energy source of stars and enable nuclear technology. A decade later, in November 1915, he presented general relativity, reimagining gravity not as a force but as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass, a prediction spectacularly confirmed in 1919 when Arthur Eddington's solar eclipse observations showed starlight bending around the Sun exactly as Einstein predicted. Almost exactly 100 years after the theory was published, the LIGO observatory detected gravitational waves on September 14, 2015 — ripples in spacetime produced by two black holes merging 1.3 billion light-years away, confirming Einstein's final major unverified prediction and opening an entirely new window for observing the universe.

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