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  2. Relativity of simultaneity - Wikipedia

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    If two events happen at the same time in the frame of the first observer, they will have identical values of the t-coordinate. However, if they have different values of the x -coordinate (different positions in the x -direction), they will have different values of the t' coordinate, so they will happen at different times in that frame.

  3. Multiple discovery - Wikipedia

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    Multiple discoveries in the history of science provide evidence for evolutionary models of science and technology, such as memetics (the study of self-replicating units of culture), evolutionary epistemology (which applies the concepts of biological evolution to study of the growth of human knowledge), and cultural selection theory (which studies sociological and cultural evolution in a ...

  4. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1831: Electromagnetic induction was discovered by Michael Faraday in England in 1831, and independently about the same time by Joseph Henry in the U.S. [38] 1831: Chloroform – Samuel Guthrie in the United States (July 1831), and a few months later Eugène Soubeiran (France) and Justus von Liebig (Germany), all of them using variations of the ...

  5. Special relativity - Wikipedia

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    A time interval measured using a single clock that is motionless in a particular reference frame is called a proper time interval. [38] Fig. 4-3B illustrates these same two events from the standpoint of observer B, who is parked by the tracks as the train goes by at a speed of ⁠ ⁠. Instead of making straight up-and-down motions, observer B ...

  6. Unity of opposites - Wikipedia

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    That is to say, when an object moves from point A to point B, a change is created, while the underlying law remains the same. Thus, a unity of opposites is present in the universe simultaneously containing difference and sameness. An aphorism of Heraclitus illustrates the idea as follows: The road up and the road down are the same thing.

  7. Einstein's thought experiments - Wikipedia

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    Light from these two flashes reach M at the same time, from which M concludes that the bolts were synchronous. The combination of Einstein's first and second postulates implies that, despite the rapid motion of the train relative to the embankment, M ' measures exactly the same speed of light as does M.

  8. Eternal return - Wikipedia

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    Eternal return (or eternal recurrence) is a philosophical concept which states that time repeats itself in an infinite loop, and that exactly the same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way, over and over again, for eternity.

  9. Mutual exclusivity - Wikipedia

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    In logic, two propositions and are mutually exclusive if it is not logically possible for them to be true at the same time; that is, () is a tautology. To say that more than two propositions are mutually exclusive, depending on the context, means either 1. "() () is a tautology" (it is not logically possible for more than one proposition to be true) or 2. "() is a tautology" (it is not ...