The Rise of Einsteinian Special Relativity In 1905, Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity was proposed. The reason that it is so “special” is because it was part of the more complex and extensive Theory of General Relativity, which was published in 1915. His theory reshaped the world of physics when it contradicted all previous laws of motion erected by Galileo and Newton. By mathematically manipulating these previous laws of motion, physicists in the nineteenth century were …showed first 75 words of 1912 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1912 total…and length contraction are so minute, it’s not practical to use Einstein’s more complex equations of Special Relativity in place of Newton’s for these motions. The fastest a human being has ever gone in a spacecraft in space is nowhere remotely near the awesome speed of light. Perhaps in the future, when spacecraft capable of traveling just under speed of light is developed, will we encounter this phenomenon in a substantial quantity.