Building on the
Special Relativity Theory Einstein realized that he could include the effect of gravity in his theory if he could capture the effect of acceleration of moving bodies.
Specifically, in the radar frame of reference, if the Space Surveillance Network waves travel at c, then the Deep Space Network waves travel at c plus the projection of the spacecraft velocity in the direction of the beam, in sharp contrast with the Second Postulate of the Special Relativity Theory.
For example, under Special Relativity Theory, a moving source is affected by time dilation while a moving image is not.
Implications of Einstein's
special relativity theory for nursing epistemology are also addressed what we can come to know within the limits of spacetime.
What Einstein could not foresee, however, was that the reconceptualized physics he offered in his
special relativity theory in order to keep the Earth moving and the speed of light constant was superseded 10 years later by his general relativity theory which, by his own covariance equations, allowed the Earth to remain fixed and the speed of light to be variable.
Here, information about the first measurement, if required as cause of the remote effect, might need to travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum and thus violate the universal velocity constraint imposed by the Minkowski-Einstein space-time formalism of special relativity theory. (2) Later, quantum pioneer, Erwin Schrodinger, was to depict this strange non-classical nexus as "entangled," (3) a description that has subsequently achieved almost universal acceptance.
In partial answer to his own question, he noted that the notion of causality as required by special relativity theory, was jeopardized:
Einstein's
special relativity theory establishes the speed of light limit as a fundamental property of the relationship between space and time.
Einstein woke with the
Special Relativity Theory clear in his head even though he seems to have lost the dream that helped give it to him.
The
special relativity theory led to the idea that mass is a highly concentrated form of energy.
As a precursor to Einstein's
Special Relativity Theory Maxwell had, a century earlier, established that light was an interaction between moving electricity and moving magnet and was an electromagnetic wave.