“I think that the notion of relativity—the one we’ve read about in Mach and Poincaré—might hold the answer. Relativity might bridge the gap between the theories of Newton and Maxwell, the new and the old. But only if we shift our understanding of space and time.” I explained to him the thought experiment I’d had in the Novi Sad train station. “The logical outcome is that the measurements of certain quantities—such as time—are relative to the velocity or speed of the observer, particularly if we assume that the speed of light is fixed for all observers. Space and time should be considered
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