Can anyone explain me in lucid way to understand Theory of Relativity ?

Answer 1

everything is relative read the hitchhikers gide to the galaxy!

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Answer 2

this is the way it was told to me in school many years ago
imagine two rail lines with two trains running parallel
Now imagine you are throwing a ball to someone in the train window on the other track
when the trains are stationary the ball is only going about 5 feet across the gap then when they start going slowly the ball starts to move along too (forget th e wind)
when the trains are really flying along the ball is still only passing the few feet from train to train but is really travelling hundreds of yards
If the trains achieve incredible speeds (forget wind drag and friction ) then although the ball is only travelling across to the other train. it is actually flying forward at the same time and covering incredible distances
yet the distance between train windows has not changed and the the other person is still there five feet away but you have moved a very long way
I know this is not really an explanation but it makes you think about how things are -----not really what they seem to be sometimes
relativity is an idea
you have to work on it in your own mind

Answer 3

There are two theories, the special theory and the general theory, which do you want?

SPECIAL:

Einstein's theory of special relativity results from two statements -- the two basic postulates of special relativity:

1. The speed of light is the same for all observers, no matter what their relative speeds.
2. The laws of physics are the same in any inertial (that is, non-accelerated) frame of reference. This means that the laws of physics observed by a hypothetical observer traveling with a relativistic particle must be the same as those observed by an observer who is stationary in the laboratory.

Given these two statements, Einstein showed how definitions of momentum and energy must be refined and how quantities such as length and time must change from one observer to another in order to get consistent results for physical quantities such as particle half-life. To decide whether his postulates are a correct theory of nature, physicists test whether the predictions of Einstein's theory match observations. Indeed many such tests have been made -- and the answers Einstein gave are right every time!

Answer 4

There are two theories of relativity. General relativity and Special relativity. I am not sure which is which but generally relativity means a relationship between mass and energy. E=mc2 means that when fission occurs in 1 gram of matter it produces the equivalent of 1*c2 amount of energy.

Answer 5

simple
I tell you something I think you will understand.Ok?

well suppose that you are walking on a hot very hot sand , how impatient you will be getting out from it.

on the other hand you are waiting for your most loved person in your life and he or she is getting late whom you are meeting after long time . then how impatient you will be.

In both the cases its you are impatient but the cause and surroundings environment is different.
so thats it.

hve gr8 day.

Answer 6

What goes up must come down. Tha t is relative. He he he
Honestly I don't know.

Answer 7

a one sentence explanation:
moving clocks tick slower.

Answer 8

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