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• n  (physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts
• n  the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else

• At first even many scientists didn't really grasp relativity, prompting Arthur Eddington's celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity .
• For Stalinists, relativity represented rampant capitalist individualism; for some churchmen, it meant ungodly atheism, even though Einstein, who had an impersonal Spinozan view of .
• The equations of general relativity simply can't handle such a situation, where the laws of cause and effect break down and particles jump from point A to point B without going .

• theory of relativity
• relativity theory
• Einstein's theory of relativity

News & Articles

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• Chris Tucker to Star in Relativity Comedy 'Second Honeymoon' (Exclusive)
  By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After a five-year hiatus from the big screen, Chris Tucker eased his way back into Hollywood with a well-received supporting turn in David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook." Now Tucker is ready to return to leading roles, as he has signed on to star in Relativity Media's comedy "Second Honeymoon." Phil Joanou ("Gridiron Gang") will direct the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Lakers Star Dwight Howard Joins Relativity/Reel FX Pic ‘Free Birds’
  EXCLUSIVE : Los Angeles Lakers star Dwight Howard has found something to keep him busy during the off season. He has joined the voice cast of Relativity and Reel FX ’s Free Birds . He plays Cold Turkey, one of the Wild Turkeys that Jake (voiced by Woody Harrelson) and Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson) meet when they travel back in time to try and get turkeys off the Thanksgiving Day menu. Amy ...
  June 12, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
• kCura Releases Relativity 8
  CHICAGO -- kCura, developers of the e-discovery software Relativity, today announced the launch of Relativity 8. This latest version of the platform adds key feature improvements—including email threading; ...
  June 10, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Subhash Kak in EurekAlert (press release)
  You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You... Martin Luther King http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHseSRQmT3TmRBJOlbGGVSeJWjW7w Austin American-Statesman (subscription) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/01/11/11balch_edit.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFxrlr71mGidMbtgAMaG__sv4JVxw Jan 10, 2007 82210 109956 relativity I solved the paradox by incorporating a new principle within the relativity framework that defines motion not in relation to individual objects, such as the two twins with respect to each other, but in relation to distant stars," said Kak.
• Romano Prodi in International Herald Tribune
  Measuring the curvature of space caused by gravity is one of the most sensitive ways to learn how Einstein's theory of General Relativity relates to quantum physics. Uniting gravity theory with quantum theory is a major goal of 21st-Century... Sergei Kopeikin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kopeikin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGs42eSsKtm1fJTYF-YRpChtS377A Science Daily (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090901132806.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHMj_IeFlIjh2WBBZxLIqjM2b7t1g Sep 1, 2009 82212 109958 relativize The official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, lashed out, saying that Prodi acted in search of votes" in an attempt to "relativize and ideologize the reality of the family."