Sentence examples for motion is relative from inspiring English sources

And although Einstein's development of general relativity was in large part motivated by a desire to implement a general principle of relativity, to wit that all motion is relative motion, that it succeeds in doing so was questioned shortly after the theory was introduced.

Motion is relative, after all.

Dr. Amelino-Camelia said that the doubly special theories preserve Einstein's principle that all motion is relative, but at an unknown cost to the rest of physics".We paid a dramatic price for relativity: the notion of absolute time," he said.

As soon as it was realised that all motion is relative (which happened long before Einstein), distance in space became ambiguous except in the case of simultaneous events, but it was still thought that there was no ambiguity about simultaneity in different places.

So we are very far from being able to conclude that all motion is relative motion of a body with respect to other bodies.

Einstein's theory held that time and motion are relative to the observer if the speed of light is constant and if all natural laws are the same.

All motion being relative, he said, it was irrelevant for the purposes of Muslim rituals whether the sun went around the Earth or vice versa.

This appealed to Poincaré and strengthened his belief that there was no sense in a concept of absolute motion; all motion was relative.

He declared that all motion was relative, and speculated that therefore the inertia of any given object in the universe was somehow determined by its relation to everything else in the universe.

Leibniz denied that motion was relative to space itself, since he denied the reality of space; for him true motion was the possession of active force.

According to this view, the only quantities of motion are relative quantities, relative velocity, acceleration and so on, and all relative motions are equal, so there is no true sense of motion.