Special Relativity
Einstein's 1905 RevolutionBy Aira Astralis
Length1h 48m
About this audiobook
In 1905 a patent clerk in Bern abolished the ether, and with it the century's picture of absolute time. Special relativity rests on two postulates, the same laws for every uniformly moving observer and one speed of light for all of them, and from that pair follow the strange geometry this book explains in plain prose: the clocks that disagree, the rulers that shorten, the spacetime of Minkowski where simultaneity is an opinion, the twin paradox and its careful resolution, and the mass-energy equivalence that prices the sun's shine at four million tons a second. The story runs from the failed ether experiments of the 1880s through the muons, airline clocks, and satellite firmware that now confirm the theory daily, to the misconceptions, the one-way-speed question, and the frontier searches for violations. The century's strangest theory is its most tested, and this is the whole account.
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GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Discovery of Special Relativity
4Chapter 2: The Two Postulates
5Chapter 3: The Relativity of Simultaneity: Einstein's Train
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6Chapter 4: Time Dilation: The Clocks That Disagree
7Chapter 5: Length Contraction: The Shrinking Ruler
8Chapter 6: The Lorentz Transformation: The Grammar of the Theory
9Chapter 7: Minkowski's Arena: Spacetime
10Chapter 8: Proper Time and the Twin Paradox
11Chapter 9: E Equals M C Squared: Mass and Energy
12Chapter 10: The Speed Limit: Why Nothing Overtakes Light
13Chapter 11: Electromagnetism: The Theory That Was Already Relativistic
14Chapter 12: The Experimental Verdict I: Light and Clocks
15Chapter 13: The Experimental Verdict II: Particles, Muons, and the Sky
16Chapter 14: Relativity in the Machines: GPS, Clocks, and the Pocket
17Chapter 15: Faster Than Light: Fiction, Physics, and the Causality Wall
18Chapter 16: The Frontier of Violations: Testing the Untestable
19Chapter 17: From Special to General: The Ten-Year Extension
20Chapter 18: Relativity and the Quantum: The Marriage and Its Children
21Chapter 19: The Poincaré Question: Who Found It First?
22Chapter 20: Einstein's Path: The Patent Office Years
23Chapter 21: Misconceptions and Corrections: What the Theory Does Not Say
24Chapter 22: The Theory in the Culture: A Century of Relativity
25Chapter 23: Mysteries and Open Doors: What the Theory Leaves Untested
26Chapter 24: Fun Facts and Trivia About Special Relativity
27Chapter 25: Conclusion: The Significance of Special Relativity
28Conclusion
29References: Special Relativity
30Glossary
31About the Author
32Series Info
33Copyright
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