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“No mathematician can give any meaning to the language about matter, force, inertia used in current text-books of mechanics.”
“If you don't take my words too seriously, I would say this: If we assume that all matter would disappear from the world, then, before relativity, one believed that space and time would continue existing in an empty world. But, according to the theory of relativity, if matter and its motion disappeared there would no longer be any space or time.”
“Only around the end of the nineteenth century did scientists come across a few observations that did not fit well with Newton's laws, and these led to the net revolution in physics - the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.”
“I consider the theory of relativity to be an example showing how a fundamental scientific discovery, sometimes even against the resistance of its creator, gives birth to further fruitful developments, following its own autonomous course.”
“Einstein's famous theory of relativity states that while phenomena appear different to someone close to a black hole, traveling close to the speed of light, or in a falling elevator here on earth, scientists in profoundly different environments will nevertheless always discover the same underlying laws of nature.”
“Arthur Eddington, Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory (1921)”
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Relativity is an American drama television series which followed a twenty-something couple, Isabel Lukens (played by Kimberly Williams) and Leo Roth (played by David Conrad), and the lives and loves of their friends and siblings in Los Angeles. The short-lived ABC series was the product of thirtysomething producers Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz (who also produced Once and Again and My So-Called Life, two other critically acclaimed series). The series ran on ABC from September 24, 1996 until April 14, 1997; it was canceled after 17 episodes due to low ratings. The first open-mouth kiss between two women on prime time television occurred on the show in 1997.