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Special Relativity

Albert Einstein · 1905

"Space and time aren't fixed backdrops — they stretch and compress depending on how fast you're moving relative to what you're measuring."

The idea

A 26-year-old patent clerk rewrote physics in 1905 without a lab or a university post — showing space and time bend depending on your speed relative to what you're observing.

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