2007-03-03 04:52:00 · 6 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Because Einstein showed that the laws of physics are the same in all reference frames, if you make the right adjustments for speed and gravity.
Galileo, Newton, and all the "classic" scientists though that the laws of physics had to be based on some "absolute" frame of reference. They though there was something special about a reference that "stayed still". Einstein showed that staying still is relative to how you measure it, and that there are no special reference frames.
2007-03-03 05:00:15 · answer #1 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galileo felt that motion was absolute, while EInstein proved that motion is merely relative. Why are they different? Because your intuition tells you that motion is absolute, and that's what everyone thought at first. Finally in the 1900s Michaelson and Morley did a classic experiment that proved you could NOT prove the Earth was moving. Einstein then explained this result in the Theory of Relativity.
2007-03-03 05:14:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Galileo and Einstein lived about 600 years apart. They each had a different world, and universal for that matter, view. Einstein's theory would be more reliable today because we are contemporaries, but in Galileo's time his theory would have made sense from what they knew about the world.
2007-03-03 04:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by irishrunner1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein says there is no absolute frame of reference. I hope that answers what you're getting at. If there were an absolute frame of reference, that would mean that from that frame, all things would measure consistently. There is no such "frame".
2007-03-03 04:57:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein only includes positive dimension in his theories and relates matter as motion , or the.000...1 ...dimensional galileo includes the concept of zero dimension in his theory of reference ps. zero dimension doesn't disclude the existence of matter it just includes the addition of (slightly more space) area
2007-03-03 06:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Book of Changes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-18 04:51:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋