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Einstein explained that when two objects are ____________________ at a constant ____________________ as the ____________________ motion ____________________ the two ____________________ , instead of appealing to the ether as an ____________________ frame of reference that defined what was ____________________ on . If you and some ____________________ , Amber , are moving in different ____________________ and want to compare your ____________________ , all that matters is how fast you and Amber are moving with ____________________ to each other .

Special relativity includes only the special case ( hence the name ) where the motion is uniform . The motion it ____________________ is only if you're traveling in a straight line at a constant speed . As soon as you accelerate or curve ? or do anything that changes the nature of the motion in any way ? special relativity ceases to apply . That's where ____________________ general ____________________ of relativity comes in , because it can explain the general case of any sort of motion .

Einstein's theory was based on two key ____________________ :

The principle of relativity : The laws of ____________________ don't change , even for objects moving in inertial ( constant ____________________ ) frames of reference .

The principle of the ____________________ of light : The speed of light is the same for all observers , regardless of their motion relative to the light source . ( Physicists write this speed using the ____________________ c . )