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The meaning of relativity

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In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four lectures constituted an overview of his then controversial theory of relativity. Princeton University Press made the lectures available under the title The Meaning of Relativity, the first book by Einstein to be produced by an American publisher. As subsequent editions were brought out by the Press, Einstein included new material amplifying the theory. A revised version of the appendix "Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field," added to the posthumous edition of 1956, was Einstein's last scientific paper.
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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German, Swiss and American physicist, of Jewish parents. In Physics, he published a research paper on the photoelectric effect, among three hundred other scientific papers of him in the equivalence of matter and energy, quantum mechanics, and others, and his proven conclusions led to the interpretation of many scientific phenomena that classical physics failed to prove. Einstein began with "special relativity" that contradicted Newton's theory of time and space to solve in particular the problems of the old theory regarding electromagnetic waves in general, and light in particular, and that was between (1902-1909) in Switzerland. As for "general relativity", he put it forward in 1915, in which he discussed gravity, and it represents the current description of gravity in modern physics. General relativity generalizes both special relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, by providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime.
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