“I think…I remember everything that must have been about the last day,” I exclaimed softly as the memories began to come back to me. I sat at my maple wood desk, thinking and researching. That day in class we learned about the theory of relativity, but I didn't really understand it. I mean, I understood it, but not to the extent that everyone else did. I acquired the basics… of a concept. I remember the professor exclaiming, "Einstein predicted that the length of an object can be measured to be shorter when it is in motion than when it is at rest." This is one of the concepts that really confused me: “so what exactly does this mean?” I felt like he just expected me to know what he meant, so when I asked this question, he had to make it more confusing by writing a math equation on the board. L=L_0 √(1-v^2/c^2 ) L = Length of the object measured from the other frame of reference L_0 = Length of the object measured in the same frame of reference as the object v = Speed ​​d 'one frame of reference in relation to the other If this equation was to explain anything, it did a horrible job. I spent the rest of that class trying to figure out what that meant and I'm 100% sure I got it; if something passes very quickly it appears to be smaller than if it is standing still and the frame of reference depends on whether we are seeing a stationary or moving object at that time. Since it took me the entire course to understand this concept, I ended up missing the rest of the course on special relativity. So, as I sat at my desk, still smelling faintly of maple, I procrastinated before finally telling myself to do it. Just open this textbook and catch up, I told myself over and over again before finally deciding to enter this world of confusion. “The theory of relativity is the desire to express all natural phenomena by a set of simple equations; and [this] is right when [you object] to making the requirement of simplicity the main goal of a scientific theory. » “What,” I said to myself, trying to make sense of what I had just read.