Relativity of time
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The Andromeda paradox: two walkers passing each other disagree about whether a fleet has already launched
Light cones: why saying now about Alpha Centauri is a convention and not a fact
Michelson and Morley found nothing in 1887 and that null result became physics' most useful measurement
The twin paradox: the traveller really is younger and acceleration is what breaks the symmetry
Why one-way light signals cannot synchronise two clocks without a convention
Two observers disagree about distance and duration but always agree on the spacetime interval
Gravity Probe B's gyroscopes and the dragging of spacetime by a rotating Earth
Hafele and Keating flew caesium clocks around the world in 1971 and the two directions were wrong in opposite ways
The speed of light is not really about light: it is the exchange rate between space and time
Why length contraction is a convention about simultaneity and not a physical squash
The train and the two lightning strikes: how Einstein's 1905 thought experiment killed absolute simultaneity
Proper time is the only time your body actually experiences
Distant Type Ia supernovae run slow by exactly their redshift factor
Rossi and Hall in 1941: cosmic-ray muons reach sea level because their lifetime stretches
NIST raised an optical clock by 33 centimetres and it measurably ticked faster
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