How to Use relativity in a Sentence
relativity
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Or think of it this way: In relativity, the laws of physics look the same from all perspectives.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
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Those are good enough that an aluminum ion clock did a test of relativity.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
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Games and leagues are built on that engine of relativity, and the NBA is no exception.
—Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
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By the end of the 1920s, relativity was on solid footing.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2019
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Which brings us to the charge that Trump's election was the fault of academic emphasis on the relativity of truth.
—John Havelock, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Sep. 2017
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The rumor was true, and a few weeks later the physics-savvy crowd turned out in force, packing the largest hall to hear Hawking discuss relativity and the origin of the universe.
—Brian Greene, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
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General relativity yields the predictions of black holes and the Big Bang at the origin of our universe.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2020
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Contrast that to the theory of relativity and its lone, dreamy hero in Einstein.
—Sam Kean, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
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Relativity predicted that the mass of the Sun should distort space enough to bend the light arriving from distant stars.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
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The Tuareg guide’s point was not merely one of relativity.
—Robert Draper, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
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On some level, this lines up nicely with the story of relativity.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 June 2018
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Some quantum in your equivalence In relativity, mass and energy are two sides of the same coin.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
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The theory of relativity can be expressed in prose, but E=mc² is more succinct.
—Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
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General relativity says that any object with mass should bend the fabric of space-time.
—Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
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But as wonky as the concept of now becomes in relativity, some things — like causality — are preserved.
—Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
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In a pivotal twist, the hero Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is punished by the power of relativity.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2019
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A decade later, Einstein burst onto the scene with his theory of relativity in which time is a fourth dimension, just like space.
—National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2016
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But the fallout of the Michelson-Morley experiment led to the idea of the universal speed of light, inspired Einstein’s breakthroughs in relativity, and opened the door to much of modern physics.
—Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
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Alex Rodriguez, the former Bronx Bomber, is testing out his own method: the humbling theory of fame relativity.
—Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 30 June 2017
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There is a phenomenon of relativity known as time dilation, in which time appears to slow down almost to a stop for bodies that approach the speed of light.
—Jerry Adler, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
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But for this test, the research team also ran a version where relativity was replaced with a chameleon f(R) version of gravity.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 July 2019
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But for all of its later fame, the theory of relativity made no impact on the general public when first published in 1905.
—Andrew Robinson, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
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But what about the poster on how consciousness can be explained by relativity, which provides a way to unite first-person and third-person frames of reference?
—John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
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In a nod to Einstein’s theory of relativity, Adams bends time during the countdown so that five minutes are stretched out to almost fifteen.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
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Turok, too, remains optimistic that a new era of physics may be just around the corner — one that might produce bold new ideas on the scale of quantum theory and relativity.
—Dan Falk /, NBC News, 2 June 2018
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The other is relativity, which is a theory of gravity and therefore of the universe at the largest scales—planets, stars and galaxies.
—The Economist, 7 June 2019
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The main issue with the Panthers is perhaps the perpetual lack of relativity.
—Matt Wyatt, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
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Turns out Al, who had his own distinctive brand of disheveled chic, was on to something beyond a mere theory of relativity.
—Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
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The result would be no mere picture but a trove of pixels against which to test our ideas about gravity, relativity and the behavior of matter in extremis.
—Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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These two cases are stark reminders of the relativity of shareholder power in American companies, compared to the implicit power that resides with top management and boards.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
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