A Brief History of Relativity(Cont.)

Part 3 Einstein's Revolution 

In June 1905, Einstein began his thirst for knowledge, which inevitably created one of the most influential and prominent works in the world of science. He started off with the thought that if someone could not distinguish whether or not the particular object or individual was moving through space, then the whole notion on the ether was redundant. Instead, he believed that the measure for the speed of light should be the same, no matter how fast these individuals or objects were moving. In other words, Einstein thought that every one or object had a personal set of time. Thus saying that the speed of light is completely independent from the individuals or objects motion. As a result of this, Einstein's ideas did not receive much attention because it would require the lost of an already well established theory.  However, Einstein's ideals were confirmed by a number of experiments, as for example, two accurate clocks were flown around the world in opposite directions. When the clocks finally returned to the point of origin, it was noticed that they had different times. This then lead to the idea of the twins paradox, in reference with the ideals of Einstein, in where the twin that leaves earth travels around space going at the speed of light. The other twin remains on Earth, and due to the motion of the Earth, will age more rapidly than the twin in space.  

Theories like this helped Einstein postulate that the laws of nature should be applicable to all freely moving observers. This lead to the establishment to one of his most prominent works, known as the theory of relativity and with the name, implied that only relative motion was imperative. As a result of this, Einstein completely done away with two of nineteenth-centuries major scientific notions of the ether and absolute or universal time would equally measure on all clocks.