Einstein's theories explained in 5 minutes: (special) relativity

Introduction

In the past I have noticed a lot of people talk about (special) relativity and other physics theories, but when you ask them a few questions, they do not seem to grasp the concept....

In this series of blog posts I will try to explain you some of his concepts the way I understand them...

The inspiration for this series has been one of Einstein's quotes :

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

I am no physicist by any means, nor a good mathematician, so you should never ask me any questions about the proof or maths about something, since I simply do not know. If you ask most people about these theories they usually start making it way too complicated for one of the two following reasons :

• They do not understand it, so they try to blow you away with complicated things they heard about it, so you would stop asking questions about it...
• They do understand it, but their explanation assumes you know the "language of physicists" - which you do not - so it seems like they are talking Jibberish all the way...

We will start with a very popular concept : the theory of special relativity.

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