Across
- 2. Time ___________ means the physical slowing (a.k.a. stretching) of time as objects travel at high speed in space.
- 5. If you were to travel on a high speed space ship, time would slow for you, and yet you and everything else on the ship would feel totally ___________.
- 9. The effects of Special Relativity happen at all speeds, but they would only be noticeable at extremely high (a.k.a. ____________) speeds.
- 11. The ____________ Principle essentially states that new scientific theories must align with existing laws that have been fully verified.
- 12. A massive gravitational "well" in space-time in which even light cannot escape.
- 14. The famous Physicist who developed both Special and General Relativity.
- 15. According to Special Relativity, the faster you move through space, the lower you move through __________.
- 18. Observers can experience things differently __________ to their frame of reference.
- 19. E=mc2 tells that mass and _________ are really the same.
- 20. Special Relativity applies to motion that is __________.
Down
- 1. The first ___________ of Special Relativity states that it is impossible to distinguish between motion at rest and motion at constant velocity.
- 3. The Principle of ____________ states that it is impossible to distinguish between a space-time acceleration and an acceleration caused by gravity.
- 4. Light has ____________ momentum.
- 6. The speed of _______ is a constant for all observers.
- 7. General Relativity applies to motion that is _____________.
- 8. Einstein's view of gravity is that it isn't really a force but rather a _________ in space-time caused by the presence of mass.
- 10. Something traveling at the speed of light experiences _________ speed through time.
- 13. Einstein's General Relativity agreed with nearly all of Newton's work including that gravity is ______________.
- 16. Einstein would agree with Newton that both ________ and distance affect gravity.
- 17. General Relativity offered an explanation behind the "force" of ___________.