Special Relativity: The Very Basics

You might find it surprising that a comprehensive introduction to the special theory of relativity requires only two brief statements and one's own imagination. Albert Einstein himself utilized little more than this to first conceive the revolutionary theory that would inspire a complete overhaul of our long-held ideas about space and time.

Almost deceptive in its surface-level simplicity, Einstein's theory is formed on the basis of but two brief but poignant postulates; the laws of physics ...