Tomislav Ivezić Ruder Bošković Institute, P.O.B. 180, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Some of the well-known experiments: the ”muon” experiment, the Michelson-Morley type experiments, the Kennedy-Thorndike type experiments and the Ives-Stilwell type experiments are analyzed using the nonrelativistic theory, the ”apparent transformations (AT) relativity” and the ”true transformations ...

This paper gives a brief survey of the development of general relativity theory starting from Newtonian theory and Euclidean geometry and proceeding through to special relativity and finally to general relativity and relativistic cosmology.