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"Reality," the concept, is contrasted with a wide variety of other concepts, largely depending upon the intellectual discipline. It can help us to understand what we mean by "reality" to note that what we say is not real because we see it through different perspectives, therefore there is no basis for reality. But usually if there is no original and related proofs, it isn't reality. In philosophy, reality is contrasted with nonexistence (penguins do exist; so they are real) and mere possibility (a mountain made of gold is merely possible, but is not known to be real—that is, actual rather than possible—unless one is discovered). Sometimes philosophers speak as though reality is contrasted with existence itself, though ordinary language and many other philosophers would treat these as synonyms. They have in mind the notion that there is a kind of reality — a mental or intentional reality, perhaps — that imaginary objects, such as the aforementioned golden mountain, have. Alexius Meinong is famous, or infamous, for holding that such things have so-called subsistence, and thus a kind of reality, even while they do not actually exist. Most philosophers find the very notion of "subsistence" mysterious and unnecessary, and one of the shibboleths and starting points of 20th century analytic philosophy has been the forceful rejection of the notion of subsistence — of "real" but nonexistent objects. So, basically, "reality" is just the electrical signals sent to your brain to describe your surroundings based on already known knowledge. But there is a difference between reality and fact and truth. ----------------------- you made my brain hurt.this didnt help any.i am so confused!:(ooooooohhhhhhhh........
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Albert Einstein papers of 1905?
They were about the theories of realativity
Does mass travel at the speed of light or does it vibrate at the speed of light?
Neither, mass can never reach the speed of light, this question also contridicts the theory of realativity.
What gave Einstein the idea for the theory of realativity?
As he was riding on a bus, he ran through a thought experiment in which he traveled at faster and faster speeds away from a clock tower he had noticed out the back window.
Who developed the story of realativity?
Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity. He first proposed the special theory of relativity in 1905 and later developed the general theory of relativity in 1915. These theories revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and gravity.
Why was the theory of realativity an important theory?
It is important for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is that it changed the fundamental way that we understood two very basic ideas: time and distance. These lie and the basis of all of our understanding of modern science. Before relativity we viewed them as absolute, unchanging, the same for everybody. With relativity we now understand that that these quantities are relative, percieved differently by different people depending upon how they move. By changing how we understand these two concepts that form the foundation of all our understandings of physics, relativity has an effect, on some level, on every aspect of physics, not just some portion of it.
