Ascribing Personality to a Mountaintop 09/09/2016 Relativity is a fundamental principle of life which, therefore, has many applications other than strictly scientific ones. The principle of relativity can be illustrated, as Einstein did, with an example of a passenger on a train and a person on a railway platform. The person on the platform watches the train go by, perceiving himself as motionless and the train as being in motion. Equally he views the passenger inside the train as in motion, whether they are standing still (within the moving
Relativity is a fundamental principle of life which, therefore, has many applications other than strictly scientific ones. The principle of relativity can be illustrated, as Einstein did, with an example of a passenger on a train and a person on a railway platform. The person on the platform watches the train go by, perceiving himself as motionless and the train as being in motion. Equally he views the passenger inside the train as in motion, whether they are standing still (within the moving