Re:Relativistic Spaceship
by bee_rider on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:16PM
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I’m not sure I’d call that a punchline of relativity; the idea of frame of reference is also part of the classical model.
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Relativity (the fact that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames of reference) is itself a crucial part of Newtonian mechanics, except that Einstein's theories of relativity were such a big deal that we now tend to reserve the word "relativity" for his stuff, and call the old thing "Galilean invariance" or similar.