Theory of relativity...?

Question

My name is Shaumik Daityari. I am an Indian. I will be 14 on the 25th of this month. I study
in ninth standard. I am enjoying my summer break in my aunt's house. But I didn't understandthe theory of relativity. If you could
explain it to me in a very simple language with pictures, I will REALLY BE GRATEFUL TO YOU... Please
mention your e-mail address and your nationality as I have never mixed with others. If you
are an Indian, no need to mention your nationality. Please contact me.

Answer 1

Yes like the first person said God is everything so just sit back never move and everything will be provided for you by your god. Now if you have anything you use that was invented/created as a result of some scientist doing some thinking get rid of it NOW.
[Yes, the above statements were sarcasm, but the following is not: The first answerer is obviously a deluded moron.]

Anyway, there are two theories of relativity: the special and general.
Imagine you are in a moving train going along at 50 km/h. Now you throw a ball towards the front of the train at 10km/h. If asked you will state the ball was moving away from you at 10 km/h. If an observer on the side of the tracks is asked, they will say the ball to them had a speed of 60 km./h. Both of these answers are true.
Now replace the ball with a flashlight. When you shine the light and are asked a photon's speed, both you and the observer will say it travelled at the speed of light, NOT the speed of light plus the train's speed. So, if light speed is a constant, then space-time must not be..and it isn't. At the speed of light, time dilates and space shrinks relative to the direction of motion.

Just go google or yahoo! einstein and/or relativity and it should yield some useful results.

Answer 2

Hi,
My name is Rick from America, I'ts been a little while but here goes. Time is relavant to the observer. If you are walking and someone walks by going faster than you they appear to be moving slower to you than they would if they walked by while you were standing still. Now the guy that walked by you going faster actually sees you as going slower and more accurately moving backwards. For a visual get a friend and conduct the exercese for yourselves. You will then have the basic idea and then can move forward with more advanced studieson the subject. Good Luck!

Answer 3

Yeah, the theory of relativity is bunk. What kind of shanty experiments did they perform that supposedly "proved" it? Didn't somebody take an atomic clock on a plane, sync it up with another one on the ground, fly it around the world, and then noted the difference? A lot of things wrong with that one.

Einstein did a lot to set us back, like proposing that light pressure was what was pushing back a comet's tail. Nowadays everybody thinks that this is what is going on. Then he came up with the whopper that massive objects BEND spacetime?

Answer 4

This site should help:

http://www.allaboutscience.org/theory-of-relativity.htm

But if it still makes your head hurt to think about it, don't worry! The fact that you are interested in this when only 14 years old proves you are already smarter than most 40 year-olds!

You might enjoy reading the writing of the late, great Richard Feynman, he explains physics very clearly.

Answer 5

Dear Shaumik. This is just a theory thought by Albert Einstein. It is not true. Just abstract mathematical ideas which make some people thing they are clever. The truth is in God. WL Central Africa.

Answer 6

I'm a Canadian and my email address is [e-mail]

Answer 7

www.en.wikipedia.org

Visit this one you can search every thing.

Answer 8

see this link friend
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/