Relativity

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Relativity

Relativity begins with Galileo. He believed motion must be relative which
means it involved the displacement of objects relative to a reference
system. Most scientists, at the time, rejected the idea of the Earth
rotating on its axis and around the sun because if you drop a stone from a
tall building the stone should fly away as the Earth rotates. Galileo
explained this by saying that the Earth and stone shared the same motion
and because of them sharing horizontal motion the stone would fall straight
down. In 1642 Galileo made an experiment up that could prove his theory, an
object was dropped from a ship with a tall mast while the ship was in
motion, and of course the object fell straight down. Galileo stated that
this theory was to be known as Galilean Relativity.

The Ether

Ancient Greeks initially thought that Earth was surrounded by water and the
water was surrounded by air and the air by ether. Beyond the ether was said
to be nothing.
There were many contributo...

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