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The 94 pages that link to Special relativity, each with the reason it gives.

• General relativityNarrower topic: General relativity extends its spacetime framework to include gravity and accelerated frames.

• Albert EinsteinBroader topic: It introduced Einstein’s account of time dilation, length contraction, and the equivalence of mass and energy.

• PhotonRelated: Its energy–momentum relation accommodates massless particles traveling at light speed.

• Quantum field theoryNarrower topic: Quantum field theory is constructed to respect relativistic spacetime and causal structure.

• James Clerk MaxwellRelated: The tension between Maxwell’s equations and classical mechanics helped motivate Einstein’s theory.

• Maxwell's equationsRelated: Its structure reveals why electric and magnetic fields transform into one another.

• Newton's laws of motionCompared with: Newtonian laws cease to be accurate when speeds approach the speed of light.

• Quantum electrodynamicsRelated: Relativistic invariance is built into QED's description of charged particles and light.

• Classical mechanicsCompared with: Relativistic mechanics replaces classical predictions near the speed of light.

• Doppler effectNarrower topic: Its treatment of light and time produces the relativistic version of the effect.

• Henri PoincaréRelated: Poincaré’s work on Lorentz transformations anticipated parts of the theory, alongside Einstein’s independent formulation.

• Speed of lightNarrower topic: Its postulates make the vacuum speed of light identical for all inertial observers.

• ElectromagnetismRelated: Electric and magnetic fields transform into one another between moving reference frames.

• Newtonian mechanicsCompared with: It replaces Newtonian predictions when speeds approach the speed of light.

• Lorentz forceRelated: Electric and magnetic fields transform into one another between moving observers.

• Hyperbolic geometryCompared with: Its velocity space has hyperbolic features, though spacetime geometry is not the hyperbolic plane.

• Dirac equationNarrower topic: The equation is built to respect relativistic energy and momentum.

• Newton's second lawCompared with: At high speeds, momentum is not simply mass times velocity, so the classical formula needs generalization.

• Newtonian gravityCompared with: Its finite speed of light conflicts with Newtonian gravity's instantaneous action at a distance.

• Hendrik LorentzRelated: Einstein recast Lorentz’s transformations without requiring a stationary aether.

• SpacetimeBroader topic: It established the four-dimensional spacetime framework for observers in uniform motion.

• KinematicsRelated: It changes how position, time, and velocity relate near the speed of light.

• Mass–energy equivalenceNarrower topic: Mass–energy equivalence follows from the relativistic structure of energy and momentum.

• Michelson–Morley experimentRelated: The experiment became a landmark in the history of the theory, though its null result alone did not establish it.

• Conservation of massRelated: It replaces separate universal mass and energy accounting with relativistic relationships.

• Proper timeNarrower topic: Proper time first appears as an invariant measure of elapsed time in this theory.

• Inertial frame of referenceRelated: It makes inertial frames central to the formulation of relativistic physics.

• Minkowski spacetimeNarrower topic: Minkowski spacetime is the geometric formulation of this theory.

• Stress–energy tensorNarrower topic: It establishes the spacetime framework in which energy and momentum combine.

• Galilean transformationCompared with: Its kinematics reject the absolute simultaneity assumed by Galilean transformations.

• Julian SchwingerRelated: Schwinger sought a formulation of quantum electrodynamics consistent with relativistic invariance.

• Relativistic chemistryNarrower topic: Heavy atoms’ inner electrons move fast enough for its corrections to affect chemical structure.

• Four-momentumNarrower topic: Four-momentum is the energy–momentum quantity formulated to obey special relativity.

• Natural unitsRelated: Natural units make relativistic relations treat time and distance on equal footing.

• Chandrasekhar limitRelated: Relativistic electron energies make degeneracy pressure grow too slowly to support unlimited mass.

• Electromagnetic interactionRelated: It shows electric and magnetic fields are frame-dependent aspects of one relativistic field.

• Hermann MinkowskiRelated: Minkowski’s spacetime recasts this theory as geometry rather than separate space and time transformations.

• Inverse Compton scatteringNarrower topic: Relativistic transformations explain why a photon’s energy depends on direction in the electron’s rest frame.

• Relativity of simultaneityNarrower topic: Relativity of simultaneity is one of the theory’s central consequences.

• Klein–Gordon equationNarrower topic: Its relativistic energy and momentum motivate the equation’s spacetime form.

• Hyperbolic functionsRelated: Rapidity parameterizes Lorentz boosts through hyperbolic functions.

• Classical electromagnetismRelated: Relativistic invariance explains why electric and magnetic fields transform into each other.

• Lorentz ether theoryCompared with: It uses the same Lorentz transformations but dispenses with an undetectable preferred ether frame.

• Lorentz factorNarrower topic: The Lorentz factor is a central quantity in this theory's transformations and dynamics.

• Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharRelated: Relativistic electron energies change how degeneracy pressure scales in massive white dwarfs.

• ElectrodynamicsRelated: Its spacetime structure is built into relativistic electrodynamics.

• Electromagnetic field tensorNarrower topic: Its Lorentz transformations mix the tensor’s electric and magnetic components.

• Albert A. MichelsonRelated: The Michelson–Morley result became a landmark in the history of tests concerning light and motion.

• Length contractionNarrower topic: Length contraction is one of its predictions about measurements across moving frames.

• Luminiferous aetherCompared with: It explains the relevant observations without assigning light a preferred stationary medium.