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• n.: relative, relativity (pl.: relatives)

• adj.: relative

• adv.: relatively

• family: relate, relationship, relation

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This is the essential problem: the universe is far, far too interesting. Relativity and quantum mechanics appear to suggest that the universe should be a boring place. It should be dark, lethal and lifeless.

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We're unemployed and we have nowhere to go. -Correction: We're unemployed but we have a doddering old relative to mooch off of.

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General relativity is unquestionably Einstein's masterpiece, a theory which reveals the workings of the universe at the grandest scales, capturing in one beautiful line of algebra everything from why apples fall from trees to the beginning of time and space.

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Total war makes no sense in an age where great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces.

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