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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

• Sin-Itiro TomonagaRelated: Covariance required quantum electrodynamics to respect relativistic transformations.

• Locality (physics)Related: Its invariant light cones define the relativistic boundary between local causal contact and separation.

• Lorentz groupRelated: Its transformations between inertial frames are Lorentz transformations.

• Arthur ComptonRelated: Relativistic energy and momentum relations are needed to derive the scattering shift.

• Igor TammRelated: A particle can outrun light in a material without exceeding light’s speed in vacuum.

• Degenerate matterRelated: At extreme density, degenerate electrons become relativistic and the pressure–density relation changes.

• History of opticsRelated: The failure to detect an ether helped clear the way for a new account of light and motion.

• Modern physicsRelated: It replaces classical mechanics when speeds approach the speed of light.

• Annalen der PhysikRelated: Einstein introduced the theory in a 1905 paper published here.

• Curved spacetimeRelated: Its flat spacetime is the limiting geometry against which curvature is understood.

• Edward W. MorleyRelated: The null result became part of the experimental background for abandoning ether-based accounts of light.

• Heaviside–Lorentz unitsRelated: The unit conventions pair naturally with relativistic electric and magnetic field transformations.

• History of electromagnetic theoryRelated: The fixed speed of electromagnetic waves challenged classical assumptions about space and time.

• Moving magnet and conductor problemRelated: Relativity removes the privileged rest frame implied by the differing classical explanations.

• Outline of physicsRelated: It revises classical ideas about space, time, and motion at high speeds.