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The principle that aspects of truth, value, or perception are dependent on relationships or frames of reference rather than being absolute.
A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.
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"The theory," he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people...
Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.
Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935
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