My First Book of Relativity

Eduard Altarriba is a graphic designer and illustrator. He runs Alababalà, a studio producing games, exhibitions, animation, apps and practical and fun workbooks for children. He has illustrated a number of books published by GMC Publications including, Discovering Architecture, Discovering Energy, My First Book of Electromagnetism, My First Book of Microbes, My First Book of Quantum Physics, My First Book of Relativity, My First Book of the Cosmos, What is War?, Migrants, Politics and Economics. Eduard lives in Barcelona, Spain.Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón is a science and physics enthusiast with degrees in physics and pharmacy. Since graduation he has been teaching science to children, continuing to study physics, working in the pharmaceutical field and staring at the universe with his telescope. He now writes popular science books. Sheddad and Eduard Altarriba are an award-winning illustrator and author duo and have written a number of books published by GMC Publications including My First Book of Electromagnetism, My First Book of Quantum Physics, My First Book of Relativity and My First Book of the Cosmos. Sheddad lives in Barcelona, Spain.

• Introduction 5Time 6Measuring time 8Clocks & watches 10Space 12Speed 14Movement 16Frames of reference 17Adding up speeds 22The speed of light 24We always see the past 25The theory of (special) relativity 27Time is not what it seems 28Time dilation: firing marbles 30Time dilation: firing photons 32A light clock 34Journey to the future 36Length contraction 38The moon's journey 40Speed makes things heavier 42Surfing the light 44A mathematical universe 47Acknowledgements 48

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