When this theory was first published, it was said thai it could be understood by only a dozen or so scientists in thw whole world! So obviously, I cannot even begin to try to explain it in any technical data here. But it should be useful to have a general idea of whatEinstein was dealing with, the problem he was concerned with. Everybody knows from experience that all motion is "relative." This means that it …showed first 75 words of 397 total…

…showed last 75 words of 397 total…were measured in the same way (for example, if we were racing in one direction and it was going the opposite way), it wouldn't make any difference! The ray of light would still pass at about 186,000 miles persecond. This is only te rough, general idea of what Einstein was dealing with in his theory of relativity. Among other things he dealt with were mass and energy and how they can be transformed into each other.