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The ABC of Relativity
Russell, Bertrand | June 24, 1925 issue

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The philosophical consequences of relativity are neither so great nor so startling as is sometimes thought. The theory does not say that everything is relative, on the contrary, it gives a technique for distinguishing what is relative from what belongs to a physical occurrence in its own right. The world which the theory of relativity presents to the imagination is not so much a world of "things in motion" as a world of events. It is true that there are still electrons and protons which persist, but they are to be conceived as a string of connected events, like the successive notes of a song. It is events that are the stuff of relativity physics.

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