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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...
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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/
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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
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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...
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Einstein's Relativity and Everyday Life
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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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
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Relativity Powers Your Car Battery
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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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
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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/
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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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Through Einstein's Eyes Online - Visualizing Special Relativity
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C. Savage
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Visit Through Einstein's Eyes for a simulation of what you would see if travel were possible at light speed. You can take a roller coaster ride, observe a tram moving near the speed…
http://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~cms130/TEE/
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Einstein Light
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J. Wolfe and G. Hatsidimitris
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This web site is a basic, non-mathematical introduction to relativity. It covers concepts from Galileo, Newton, and Maxwell through Einstein and special relativity. The site also…
http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/