Similarly to his special theory of relativity, Einstein's special principle of relativity extends 10 beyond the limits currently known to it. Up to now, the principle has not been suspected to have the potential to translate laws. However, the principle holds an inherent capacity to translate physical laws and, in so doing, speeds up our understanding and control of physical reality. Such a translation of laws leads to the faster discovery of other laws, such as the laws of electronic motion, characterizing the motion of electrons around the atomic nucleus, and the Third Law of 15Resistance, facilitating the successful control of drug resistance in medicine. The ability of the special principle of relativity to translate laws shines forth once the said principle is duly interpreted. This interpretation exposes a parallelism between experimental frames of reference and justifies the applicability of the laws of one frame of reference in other parallel frames of reference.This process opens the door to our faster discovery of the laws governing a multiplicity of frames 20 parallel to a frame we already know the laws of. In practice, the interpretation of Einstein's special principle of relativity speeds up our understanding and control of the physical reality we live in and, applied to biological organisms, points to the immediate step we need to take towards the successful control of drug resistance in medicine.Keywords: relativity; translation; reference frame; law; drug; design; antibiotic; antimicrobial; 25 pathogen; resistance.
Significance StatementSo far, no proposed solution has been effective in stopping drug resistance. In spite of the multiple contingency plans developed by the medical community worldwide, resistance has only 30 been getting worse and is now the number 1 medical threat mankind is facing. In characterizing resistance, we have already shown that biological resistance in general, and drug resistance in particular, is a phenomenon governed by at least two laws. In a companion article (cf. reference[6]), we show that drug resistance is governed by a third law which conditions its termination.Terminating resistance has become a requirement in both medicine and agriculture because of the 35 losses of life and the serious economic damages associated with it. Already, drug resistance over the coming decades is slated to cause several million deaths every year. The Third Law of Resistance, along with its consequential inferences, points to the immediate step we need to take for finally bringing resistance under control. However, Einstein's special principle of relativity is central to the derivation of the Third Law of Resistance. 40Relativity and the translation of physical laws