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Time Flies 
  
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Publisher: National Physical Laboratory
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This news article from the National Physical Laboratory describes how physicists updated an experimental test of special and general relativity by flying atomic clocks around the…
http://web.archive.org/web/20190303092231/https://www.npl.co.uk/news/tim...
Time Traveler 
  
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This NOVA website simulates travel to distant stars and back in a spaceship that can move at various percentages of the speed of light. You set the spaceship speed and choose your…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/
Particles break light-speed limit 
  
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This Nature News article describes the evidence for particles--neutrinos--traveling faster than light. The article describes the consequences of this discovery and outlines the…
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110922/full/news.2011.554.html
How does GPS work? 
  
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Publisher: Institute of Physics
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This article explains how the Global Positioning System works, including how a GPS receiver determines locations on Earth using satellite information, and how general and special…
http://web.archive.org/web/20200420125750/http://www.physics.org/article...
Einstein's Relativity and Everyday Life 
  
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This PhysicsCentral article, by Clifford Will of Washington University, discusses the importance of relativity for GPS. Both special and general relativity affect the accuracy of…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/writers/will.cfm
Relativity Powers Your Car Battery 
  
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This article in Physical Review Focus describes how most of the voltage from a lead-acid battery comes from relativistic effects in the lead atom. The article describes the…
https://physics.aps.org/story/v27/st2
A. Einstein - Image and Impact 
  
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This online exhibit on the life of Albert Einstein takes a somewhat less orthodox approach. How did an ordinary patent clerk with an undistinguished college record evolve into one of…
https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/einstein/
Physics in Action: Gravitational Waves 
  
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Physics Central; Publisher: American Physical Society
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Learn about gravitational radiation, and how two physicists fournd indirect evidence for it in an exotic binary star system. Then find out about three different methods that could…
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/gravity.cfm
People in Physics: Manuela Campanelli 
  
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This web page contains a short biography of physicist Manuela Campanelli, including information about her background and her work. Manuela Campanelli is currently a professor at the…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/people/campanelli.cfm
Space Time Travel: Through the city at nearly the speed of light 
  
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U. Kraus; Publisher: Universität Tübingen
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Take a light speed trip through the town of Tübingen! The website also contains stills from the video, and text that explains how what is seen is predicted by the theory of special…
https://www.spacetimetravel.org/tuebingen/tuebingen.html
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