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invariance of the speed of light
Newtonian reference frames
simultaneous events
length contraction and time dilation
curved space-time
black hole in M87
experimental evidence for general relativity
Explaining E = mc2
curvature and parallel motion
Understand Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, about what is absolute and not relative
How are gravitational waves applied in science and in everyday life?
Know the different kinds of dimensions and how they are different from one another
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
An artist's representation of Penrose tiling
Roger Penrose
British mathematician
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Russian mathematical physicist

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