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The special theory of relativity is a paper published by Albert Einstein in 1905, originally titled The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.
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His theory stated that all motion must be considered relative to some object or system of objects. For instance, consider two planes are flying in a parrellel line. They are flying at the same speed, so relative to the earth, they are flying at three hundred miles per hour. Relative to each other, they are motionless.
 
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It also states that the measured speed of light in a vaccuum, no matter what the velocity of the of the light source relative to the observer, remains constant. For instance, consider a man throws a football at a horizontal velocity of 10 miles per hour, relative to us. If the man is on a platform moving in the same direction as the ball being thrown, at 5 miles per hour, then we would assume that the horizontal velocity of the ball after being thrown would be 10 plus 5, right? Einstein theorized that while it may seem that way when measured, in reality, it is immesurably less than 10 plus 5. So, when the football being thrown from a man at barely under 15 miles per hour changes to light being hurled from a distant planet at 300,000 kilometers per second, the difference becomes noticable. As the speed of the object being 'thrown' increases, the affect of the object it is being thrown from on the object thrown decreases. It reaches zero when a moving object reaches the speed of light. He theorized that no matter what the velocity of the source of light, the light will always travel at 300,000 kilometers per second, relative to us.
 

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