🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if Einstein's relativity had gone differently?
1905 · central-europe
Space and time turn out to be relative, and mass and energy the same thing.
If it had gone differently: Physics keeps Newton's absolute space and time; the road to nuclear energy, GPS and modern cosmology is blocked.
What it made possible
Later turning points that leaned on Einstein's relativity. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.
- 1945The first electronic computers. Without it, Calculation stays the work of human "computers" with desk machines; the information age has no engine to run on.
- 1957The first satellites. Without it, Space stays out of reach; there is no satellite weather, no global live television, no GPS.
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