I'm no Einstein, but I did major in geophysics (and journalism) during college, hence the bachelor of "science" degree.  Still, I'm no Einstein. But I remember something interesting in all that I learned.  With your eyes closed, it's hard for the human mind to distinguish between being touched with a block of ice or with a block of really hot metal.  This inability only lasts for a moment or two because eventually the heat causes blisters to appear and the cold will stop the blood circulation.

I mention this little piece of scientific trivia because I very often wear nothing more than a short-sleeved shirt outside during the coldest of days.  People always ask me if I'm cold and I always say it beats being hot.  However, just like the physics lesson above, I wouldn't want to stay out in the cold without proper clothing for an extended period of time.

Here's another example of relativity in action.  For a one-hour period, would you rather be really starved for food or really stuffed with food to the point of being uncomfortable?  Again, this only becomes a 50/50 answer when we're talking about short periods of time.  I wouldn't want to starve for a week, but I could be uncomfortable with too much food in my stomach for that amount of time -- and I often am!

My mother taught me "relativity" when I was young and wouldn't eat everything on my plate.  "Think about all the starving kids in India," she'd say.  Actually, I didn't much care about anyone starving anywhere in the world.  I just wanted to get up from the dinner table and play.

Albert Einstein nailed the theory of relativity by concluding that the laws of physics appear to be the same no matter what your frame of reference.  For example, if I'm traveling at about the speed of light, I would never know it. In fact, it would look to me like I was standing still.

For example, think about flying in plane at 500 miles an hour from Washington, DC to New York.  When you look out the window of the plane, it just doesn't seem like your moving at 500 miles an hour. Actually, if there are no clouds for reference, it almost seems like you're not moving at all.  Yet, the laws of physics are still the same.  Maybe the plane is not moving, but the Earth is moving at 500 miles an hour in the opposite direction.  Or, if someone looked at the plane from outer space, it might look like the plane is standing still and the Earth is rotating in the opposite direction.  Why?  Because the plane's speed at that latitude is about the same speed as the rotation of the Earth.

Do you agree with Einstein, as well?  I figured you would.