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Learn Einstein Special and General Relativity mathematics cosmology physics history and philosophy using Macintosh (Mac) Relativity Calculator software. This is not just another website with a Java relativity calculator on it. This site is a very comprehensive collection of all matters relating to relativity.

1.) Relativity Calculator Home Page

2.) Table of Contents

3.) Glossary

4.) Some Quick and Dirty Mathematical References

5.) History of the Philosophy of Mathematics

6.) The Challenge of Plato's Cave

7.) Early Models of the Universe

8.) The Earth's Circumference

9.) Phenomenon of Parallax

10.) Kepler's 1st Law ( Planetary Law of Ellipses )

11.) Kepler's 2nd Law: Equal Areas in Equal Times.

12.) Kepler's 3rd Law ( Harmonic Law )

13.) Galileo Galilei

14.) The Earth-Sun Distance

15.) Olaf Roëmer and the speed of light

16.) Isaac Newton's Axioms or Laws of Motion

17.) Isaac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation

18.) The Calculus

19.) Some Consequences of Kepler, Galileo and Newton

20.) Solution to The 2-Body Problem

21.) Rocket Equations: Newton's 3rd Law of Motion

22.) Distance and the John Harrison time clocks which measure it

23.) The Luminiferous Aether Wind

24.) A Deeper Understanding of the Mathematics of the Michelson-Morley Experiment

25.) The FitzGerald-Lorentz Solution to the Michelson-Morley Null Result

26.) Summary: The FitzGerald-Lorentz Solution to the Michelson-Morley Null Result

27.) Stationary vs. Moving Clocks

28.) Galilean-Newton Relativity vs. Special and General Relativity

29.) The Heart of Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformation Equations

30.) Solution to Equation (7a) - Lorentz Transformation Equations

31.) Solution to Equation (9) - Lorentz Transformation Equations

32.) A Simpler Lorentz Transformation Derivation

33.) Some Results of the Lorentz Transformation Equations

34.) Relativistic Sinusoidal Wave Function

35.) Time as the 4th Dimension

36.) Addition of Relativistic Velocities

37.) Nature's Laws of Conservation

38.) Law of Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum

39.) Impulse and Momentum

40.) The Law of Energy Conservation and the Doppler Effect

41.) The binomial expansion

42.) Mass as a Variable Quantity

43.) E=mc2, Law of Inertia of Energy

44.) Some Consequences of E=mc2

45.) Explaining Relativity for The Laymen

46.) Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

47.) The Compton Effect

48.) The Photoelectric Effect

49.) The Big Bang - the earliest galaxy detected

50.) COSMOLOGY: The Universe's Invisible Hand

51.) Cosmos: Dark Energy's Hand in the Universe

52.) A.D. 100 Billion: The Big Bang Goes Completely Dark

53.) Relative Motion of Solitons in the Light-Carrying Ether

54.) Quantum Quirk: Stopped Laser Pulse Reappears a Short Distance Away

55.) Quantum Gravity - The Self-Organizing Universe

56.) The End of Cosmology?

57.) Does Time Run Backwards?

58.) Multiple Universes

59.) "The Universe on a String", by Brian Greene, New York Times, 2006

60.) Spectacular Hubble Telescope image of a barred spiral galaxy

61.) Early Clues to Human Origins

62.) "Village May Have Housed Builders of Stonehenge", New York Times, 2007

63.) "Early Astronomical ?Computer? Found to Be Technically Complex", New York Times, 2006

64.) Breaking Out of the Malthusian Trap

65.) "The Sideral Messenger" by Galileo Galilei

66.) "Parallel Universes" by Max Tegmark

67.) "Parallel Universes" by Max Tegmark, Scientific American, 2003

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