what is the actual meaning of relativity?

Question

Based on the law of relativity

Answer 1

Put your hand on a hot stove a minute can feel like an hour. Put your hands on a hot woman/man an hour can feel like a minute. It's all relative.

Answer 2

Based on the laws of relativity, it refers to a 'point of reference'. Say a train is pulling a box car that has clear plastic sides. There is a light bulb hanging in the middle of the boxcar. A guy standing in the middle of the boxcar pulls the light switch on. To him, the front and the rear of the box car light up at the same time.
Now if a guy is standing on the ground, a few hundred yards away as the train passed, and he sees the man turn on the light, He would see the rear of the boxcar light up before the front of the boxcar. Because to him, the back of the boxcar is moving toward the bulb while the front is moving away from it. So the distance to the rear is shorter than the distance to the front, because the train is moving.
So the front and rear light up at the same time relative to the guy on the train, and the rear light before the front relative to the guy on the ground.
Now, if a jet plane just so happened to be flying over the boxcar (from the rear of the boxcar towards the front) when the light was turned on, relative to him, the front lights up before the rear.
Cool, huh?

Answer 3

When Albert Einstein was asked this question, he replied:

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

And that's right from the man who gave us relativity!

Answer 4

Jessica, that's not relative.

If you said:

Put your hand on a hot stove, a minute can feel like an hour.

Put your hand on a hot woman, two minutes can feel like two hours...

THAT'S relative.