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Galileo Galile wrote "the Theory of Relativity", and Einstein wrote the General theory of relativity and the special theory of relativity.
There are actually two theories of relativity, the special theory and the general theory. In the special theory (1905) Einstein showed the relationship between energy, motion and mass. In the General theory (1912) he showed the relationship between acceleration, Time and gravity.
General purpose means it can be used for many things. Special purpose means only for a particular thing.
Some of them are 1) Big Bang Theory 2) Super string theory 3) General Relativity 4) Special Relativity 5) Quantum Theory
Albert Einstein is one of the famous scientists. He was a theoretical physicist that created the Theories of General and Special Relativity.
The simple answer is that Special Relativity can be described with simple algebraic processes. General Relativity involves much more complex mathematics, including tensor calculus, for its mathematical description.
Relativity has two parts: General relativity and special relativity, general relativity describes gravity as a geometric property of spacetime and special relativity is the physical theory of measurement in inertial frames of reference. Now quantum mechanics, in it's wave formulation, deals with describing things on the atomic scale as a wavefunction.
twin paradox appears and is solvable with only special relativity, gravitational time dialation requires general relativity.
E=mc^2 is born because of special relativity.
The scientific Theories of General and Special Relativity were first proposed by Albert Einstein.Special Relativity in 1906 and General Relativity in 1916.
E=mc^2 Edit : That equation is part of "special relativity" not "general relativity".
Albert Einstein formulated the special and general theories of relativity.
Special Relativity, General Relativity and the beginnings of Quantum Mechanics.
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Galilean Relativity - Galileo Galilei Special and General Relativity - Albert Einstein
The Theory of Special Relativity was published in 1905. General Relativity was published in 1915.
E=mc^2 Edit : That equation is part of "special relativity" not "general relativity".