The Special Theory of Relativity owes its ... The first of these processes yields the relativity of simultaneity, the influence of motion on measuring-rods and clocks, a modification of kinematics ...

His theory of special relativity stemmed from his desire to ... understanding of why different observers can disagree on the ...

"One sees in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already ... Einstein's belief that time and space are relative and simultaneity — two events happening at the same time ...