How to Use relativity in a Sentence

relativity

noun

• Or think of it this way: In relativity, the laws of physics look the same from all perspectives.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
• Those are good enough that an aluminum ion clock did a test of relativity.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
• Games and leagues are built on that engine of relativity, and the NBA is no exception.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• By the end of the 1920s, relativity was on solid footing.
  — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2019
• Which brings us to the charge that Trump's election was the fault of academic emphasis on the relativity of truth.
  — John Havelock, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Sep. 2017
• The rumor was true, and a few weeks later the physics-savvy crowd turned out in force, packing the largest hall to hear Hawking discuss relativity and the origin of the universe.
  — Brian Greene, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
• General relativity yields the predictions of black holes and the Big Bang at the origin of our universe.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2020
• Contrast that to the theory of relativity and its lone, dreamy hero in Einstein.
  — Sam Kean, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
• Relativity predicted that the mass of the Sun should distort space enough to bend the light arriving from distant stars.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
• The Tuareg guide’s point was not merely one of relativity.
  — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
• On some level, this lines up nicely with the story of relativity.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 June 2018
• Some quantum in your equivalence In relativity, mass and energy are two sides of the same coin.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2018
• The theory of relativity can be expressed in prose, but E=mc² is more succinct.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• General relativity says that any object with mass should bend the fabric of space-time.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• But as wonky as the concept of now becomes in relativity, some things — like causality — are preserved.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• In a pivotal twist, the hero Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is punished by the power of relativity.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2019
• A decade later, Einstein burst onto the scene with his theory of relativity in which time is a fourth dimension, just like space.
  — National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2016
• But the fallout of the Michelson-Morley experiment led to the idea of the universal speed of light, inspired Einstein’s breakthroughs in relativity, and opened the door to much of modern physics.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• Alex Rodriguez, the former Bronx Bomber, is testing out his own method: the humbling theory of fame relativity.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 30 June 2017
• There is a phenomenon of relativity known as time dilation, in which time appears to slow down almost to a stop for bodies that approach the speed of light.
  — Jerry Adler, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• But for this test, the research team also ran a version where relativity was replaced with a chameleon f(R) version of gravity.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 July 2019
• But for all of its later fame, the theory of relativity made no impact on the general public when first published in 1905.
  — Andrew Robinson, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• But what about the poster on how consciousness can be explained by relativity, which provides a way to unite first-person and third-person frames of reference?
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• In a nod to Einstein’s theory of relativity, Adams bends time during the countdown so that five minutes are stretched out to almost fifteen.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
• Turok, too, remains optimistic that a new era of physics may be just around the corner — one that might produce bold new ideas on the scale of quantum theory and relativity.
  — Dan Falk /, NBC News, 2 June 2018
• The other is relativity, which is a theory of gravity and therefore of the universe at the largest scales—planets, stars and galaxies.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2019
• The main issue with the Panthers is perhaps the perpetual lack of relativity.
  — Matt Wyatt, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
• Turns out Al, who had his own distinctive brand of disheveled chic, was on to something beyond a mere theory of relativity.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2018
• Studies show that participants who had more travel experience were more likely to cheat on tests, and believe in moral relativity.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• Isaac Newton’s physics paved the way for Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, leading to even more complicated questions in quantum physics that are now sparking a barrage of questions that will ultimately lead us … where?
  — Keith Wagstaff, Popular Science, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024