You Can Understand Special Relativity

Even if you’re no Einstein

Don Cross
Don Cross
Nov 5 · 16 min read
Photo by Dan Roizer on Unsplash

Albert Einstein’s name is a synonym for genius. And rightly so. As an unknown patent clerk, he published four papers in 1905 that revolutionized the physical sciences.

One of them introduced the idea of the photon, laying the groundwork for quantum mechanics.

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