In 1905, a 26-year-old patent clerk named Albert Einstein shattered centuries of physics with a simple but staggering claim: time and space are not absolute.

In this episode of Decode: Science, we unpack Einstein’s 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, where he introduces special relativity. How did he arrive at the idea that time slows down and lengths shrink when things move fast? Why does the speed of light stay constant — no matter how fast you’re going?

Strap in as we decode one of the most elegant and mind-bending papers in physics.

Paper: https://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys606/spring_2011/einstein_electrodynamics_of_moving_bodies.pdf