When you travel quickly, time slows down, space constricts, and you gain weight. If you move quickly enough, you may reach jumbo jet weight, become flattened and smaller than a CD, and live forever! It’s not necessary for a triangle’s angles to add up to 180 degrees. Naturally, there are also black holes. These are only a few of the amazing effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Despite the fact that Einstein made these discoveries more than a century ago, the general public is still largely ignorant of them. This book seeks to introduce the interested layperson to the topic of relativity in a way that is both approachable and interesting and, at the same time, academically rigorous. It is full of intriguing tales and exciting accounts of experiments. This VSI crams a lot of information into a small amount of space and uses only a few equations, none more difficult than the Pythagoras Theorem. For anyone who has been intimidated by Einstein’s revolutionary theory, it provides the ideal place to start
