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Theory of relativity

By Kayla Wong

  • Isaac Newton published his book Philosophiae

    In his book, time was universal and absolute.

  • Theory of magnetism

    This theory turned out to be compatible with special relativity, even though special relativity was not known at that time.

  • Michelson-Morley experiment

    This experiment was performed by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward Williams Morley.

  • Quote by Jules Henri Poincaré

    Jules Henri Poincaré said that "... we have no direct intuition about the equality of two time intervals."

  • Relativity principle

    Poincaré came very close to special relativity: "... as demanded by the relativity principle the observer cannot know whether he is at rest or in absolute motion."

  • Poincaré's article

    Poincaré's finished an article in which he stated that there seeems to be a general law of Nature, that it is impossible to demonstrate absolute motion.

  • Einstein's article

    Einstein finished his famous article where he formulated the two postulates of special relativity. Furthermore, in September, Einstein published his article where he derived the formula, E=mc^2.

  • Planck's article

    Max Planck wrote an artical on special relativity. He was the second person after Einstein who wrote an article about this theory.

  • Einstein's paper

    Nearly ten years after the foundation of special relativity, Einstein submitted his paper on Field Equations of Gravitation for pubication, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity.