General and Special Relativity

ASTROPHYSICAST by Team ASTROPHYSICAST

Apr 10, 202200:07:06Science & Medicine

Relativity is the notion that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. We here on Earth obey the same laws of light and gravity as someone in a far-off corner of the universe.

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