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relativist

relativist

8.5
A scientist who studies or supports Einstein's theory of relativity
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛlətɪvɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : relativista
  • Einstein was a renowned relativist who fundamentally changed our understanding of space and time.
  • Numerical relativists

So just what is a black hole that led relativists to believe that information would get sucked in and trapped there?

Examples

  • Cultural relativists argue that different cultures have different ethical standards, that the ethical standards of other cultures are just as "valid" as our own, and that it is wrong for us to judge other cultures by our own ethical standards.

    Academic text (2000)
  • People like me have often expressed their criticism of relativity in journals, but rarely of one of you relativists actually shown up to respond.

  • This can't be what a good relativist would think of as the velocity.

  • A relativist can show, using relativistic reasoning, similar to your statement...

    Blog text (24)
  • So just what is a black hole that led relativists to believe that information would get sucked in and trapped there?

  • Relativists: 2 + 2 = 10 if you're using base 4 or 11 using base 3.

    Blog text (15)
  • "It's as if physics had "Newtonians" and "Relativists."

    Blog text (10)
  • They are not relativists.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Like many early general relativists, Wheeler had the hope that all the phenomena of physics, not just gravity, would ultimately be explicable in terms of space-time geometry.

    Academic text (1991)
  • At the conference, a well-known relativist presented new findings on gravitational waves.

Surface Forms

relativist singular
relativists plural

Morphology

relativist = relative (semi-transparent) = relativ + ist

The suffix '-ist' indicates a person who practices or is concerned with something, but the scientific context may not be immediately clear.

Etymology

Relativist comes from relative ('in relation to something') and the word relativity, the idea made famous by Einstein that measurements can depend on the observer. So a scientific relativist accepts that time, space, or other physical things can look different from different points of view.