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Muons, the experiment with the two atomic clocks and the jet aircraft, things like that, yeah.

Current was originally considered to be a flow of positive charge, and so it was labelled as flowing from positive to negative (the direction in which positive charge would flow). It was later discovered that it was actually the negative charges that moved, but for convention's sake they left it...

I suppose the real question you have to ask is: what happens when you're in a car travelling at 0.99c and you turn on the headlights? EDIT: Note to anyone confused: don't be. Meant as joke, you don't have to worry about this, you won't be asked on it (I hope anyway)...

To put it simply, Max Planck created the field of quantum physics when attemtping to describe black body radiation, in particular trying to resolve the "ultra-violet catastrohpy". He postulated that light did not transfer energy continuously, but delivered it in discrete "packets" of energy...

Fair enough, though I think I've got the hang of it now. Special relativity doesn't apply to spaceships according to the BOS, but regardless, I can handle the calculations.

So we're not going have to deal with this sort of thing? Good.

I'm lost with this. I thought I understood the whole time dilation thing but this keeps throwing me off: "An astronaut set out on a spaceship from Earth orbit to travel to a distant star in our galaxy. The spaceship travelled at a speed of 0.8c. When the spaceship reached the star the onboard...