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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.

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