The idea of reference frames has a storied history in classical physics: Isaac Newton, Galileo, and Albert Einstein all relied on them for their studies of motion. A reference frame is essentially ...

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What goes for moving clocks goes for everything else; physics, chemistry and biology all operate at a slower pace in moving frames of reference.