The "Rooftop Theory of Relativity" was created in the early summer of 2007. It is named such because at the time of its creation the theorists were conversing on the rooftop of their residence. The theory is rather simple and is described as follows: "Everything is relative."
by steako October 7, 2008
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Being dependent or intertwined with another event or object that is just as dependant as the other.
Cause and effect.
Being dependent or intertwined with another event or object that is just as dependant as the other.
Cause and effect.
ERIC
I punch you in the face, you'll punch back, right?
VALLEN
Yeah.
ERIC
Your hitting me back is reative to me hitting you in the face.
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A Bank owner is very hard on a Farming family. The family is forced out of their house and loose everything, living in poverty. The Banker prospers with their loss. (1)
For 20 years, the family lives in poverty, barely surviving. Eventualy, one of the family members is forced to rob a bank to survive. The bank that is robbed happens to be the same bank which forced thim into poverty. (2)
The Banker looses everything from the robbery. He resorts to drugs (3) and one day, in a drug impared state, he decides to go and buy more drugs. He has a car accident. (4)
From the car accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak for the rest of his life. (5)
1. The Banker's prosperity is relative to the families suffering.
2. The bank robbery is relative to the Banker's being hard on the family.
3. The drugs are relative to the bank robbery.
4. The car accident is relative to the drugs.
5. the paralysis is relative to the car accidsent
In conclusion, the man's paralysis is relative to his being hard on the family, he bought it upon himself.
I punch you in the face, you'll punch back, right?
VALLEN
Yeah.
ERIC
Your hitting me back is reative to me hitting you in the face.
-ALSO-
A Bank owner is very hard on a Farming family. The family is forced out of their house and loose everything, living in poverty. The Banker prospers with their loss. (1)
For 20 years, the family lives in poverty, barely surviving. Eventualy, one of the family members is forced to rob a bank to survive. The bank that is robbed happens to be the same bank which forced thim into poverty. (2)
The Banker looses everything from the robbery. He resorts to drugs (3) and one day, in a drug impared state, he decides to go and buy more drugs. He has a car accident. (4)
From the car accident, he is paralyzed from the neck down and cannot speak for the rest of his life. (5)
1. The Banker's prosperity is relative to the families suffering.
2. The bank robbery is relative to the Banker's being hard on the family.
3. The drugs are relative to the bank robbery.
4. The car accident is relative to the drugs.
5. the paralysis is relative to the car accidsent
In conclusion, the man's paralysis is relative to his being hard on the family, he bought it upon himself.
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by Idkgsjeje October 5, 2021
Get the relacist mug.The art of exploiting the warped relationship between space and time described by Einstein's theories for practical gain. It means deliberately using time dilation (where time slows down near massive objects or at high speeds) for purposes like extended travel or computing, manipulating gravitational lensing for perfect telescopes, or leveraging frame-dragging effects for energy generation. This isn't just observing relativity; it's putting it on the payroll, turning the universe's stretching of spacetime into a utility. It's the ultimate hack for a species tired of being a slave to a single, universal clock.
Example: "The rich tourists don't just visit the black hole; they use relativity harnessing. They park their yacht in a close, stable orbit where time crawls, party for a subjective week, and return to find a century has passed and their compound interest has turned them into trillionaires."
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Get the Relativity Harnessing mug.A variant of Frutiger Aero that grafts the glossy, nature‑infused optimism of 2000s digital design onto the visual language of relativity—curved spacetime, gravitational lensing, time dilation effects, and cosmic phenomena. Think polished chrome spheres warping their reflections, glowing grids bending around invisible masses, and translucent interfaces that ripple like gravitational waves. Relativity Aero imagines a world where Einstein’s equations are not just understood but aestheticized: technology seems to distort reality gently, reminding us that space and time are malleable. It’s a future where the universe’s strangeness becomes a source of wonder, rendered in soft gradients and luminous curves.
Example: “The concept UI showed planets warping the interface around them, buttons stretching like light behind a black hole—Relativity Aero, turning Einstein’s universe into a design language.”
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Get the Relativity Aero mug.An aesthetic movement that elevates the concepts of relativity—spacetime curvature, time dilation, simultaneity—to the core of its visual identity. Relativitycore often combines vintage scientific imagery (field equations, chronophotography, early 20th‑century diagrams) with modern glossy textures, surreal spatial distortions, and a palette of deep blues, golds, and pearlescent whites. It appears in art, fashion, and digital spaces where creators explore how perception changes with velocity or gravity. Unlike purely scientific illustrations, Relativitycore embraces the poetic, even melancholic implications: time as something that can be stretched, the self as relative to observers, reality as contingent on viewpoint.
Example: “Her Relativitycore mood board featured rotating reference frames, clocks melting into light cones, and a palette of gravitational blues—not physics, but the feeling of physics as an aesthetic.”
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Get the Relativitycore mug.A colloquial term for any spacetime distortion that produces relativistic effects—time dilation, length contraction, or mass increase—beyond those caused by ordinary velocity. While special relativity already describes warps in spacetime due to relative motion, a “relativity warp” often refers to engineered distortions that mimic or exceed these effects without requiring high speed. For example, a device that compresses spacetime ahead of a ship could create time dilation equivalent to near‑lightspeed travel while the ship itself moves slowly. The term is used loosely in science fiction to describe any gravity‑based time manipulation.
Relativity Warp Example: “The ship sat motionless on the pad, but its relativity warp made time pass ten times slower inside. The crew aged one year while Earth aged a decade.”
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