# Principle of relativity

- Id: `relativity_principle`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/principle-of-relativity/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `68dd3d421ebe79cc967dee9732b9dd5cd0e93e7de457745ee992b60e3968b18e`

## Summary

The principle of relativity requires the laws of physics to retain the same form for observers within a specified class of reference frames.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 371 passages across 7 works, including Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:einstein.world_as_i_see_it:section-0156",
    "passage:einstein.relativity_popular_en:section-0094",
    "passage:einstein.principle_selected_papers:section-0017"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "principe de relativité",
    "principle of relativity",
    "Relativitätsprinzip"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 371,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "einstein.nobel_lecture",
        "title": "Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel Lecture",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/nobel-lecture/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_de",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, German Edition",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-de/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.relativity_popular_en",
        "title": "Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English Translation",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/relativity-popular-en/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.sidelights_on_relativity",
        "title": "Sidelights on Relativity",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/sidelights-on-relativity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.meaning_of_relativity",
        "title": "The Meaning of Relativity",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/meaning-of-relativity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.principle_selected_papers",
        "title": "The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by Einstein",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/principle-selected-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.world_as_i_see_it",
        "title": "The World As I See It",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/world-as-i-see-it/"
    }
]
```