Impact of Revolution of Relativity
- Enormous impact upon society and intellectual thought in 20th Century
- Dominated by Einstein’s ideas
- Speed of light c is a fundamental constant of nature
- Postulates, “Gedanken Experiments”
- Equivalence Principle
- Total revision of our concepts of space and time
- space and time unified to form space-time
- Mass and Energy unified - E = mc2
- Enormous practical consequence
- Matter, Space-Time, Gravity unified
- Essential to understand the universe - more later
- For everyday problems, Newton’s laws are still completely adequate!