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You always hear about him and the expression "he's no Einstein" but few people really know all the amazing things he accomplished in his life.
From his work on the particulate nature of light, to the explanation of Brownian motion which solidified the atomic theory, to the Theory of Special Relativitywhich stating that time was not a constant and that a luminiferous aether was unnecessary, to discovering the equivalence of mass and energy which werepreviously thought to be completely separate entities (E=mc^2), to the Theory of General Relativity which described that gravity deflected light which in turnshowed that space-time is curved and not straight, and also provided an explanation for the transformation of coordinates between frames in relativeacceleration which was exhibited by the advance of the perihelion orbit of Mercury and was the only known phenomena that the Theory of Special Relativity couldnot explain.
I'm not going to sit here and try to explain it all because I only comprehend the tip of the iceberg but if you have time I suggest you look into all ofthe incredible work Einstein did. It really amazes me that a human mind can manufacture such abstract, yet seemingly true, ideas that have held up throughtime and all the rigorous tests his theorems have been put through.
- Tical.
From his work on the particulate nature of light, to the explanation of Brownian motion which solidified the atomic theory, to the Theory of Special Relativitywhich stating that time was not a constant and that a luminiferous aether was unnecessary, to discovering the equivalence of mass and energy which werepreviously thought to be completely separate entities (E=mc^2), to the Theory of General Relativity which described that gravity deflected light which in turnshowed that space-time is curved and not straight, and also provided an explanation for the transformation of coordinates between frames in relativeacceleration which was exhibited by the advance of the perihelion orbit of Mercury and was the only known phenomena that the Theory of Special Relativity couldnot explain.
I'm not going to sit here and try to explain it all because I only comprehend the tip of the iceberg but if you have time I suggest you look into all ofthe incredible work Einstein did. It really amazes me that a human mind can manufacture such abstract, yet seemingly true, ideas that have held up throughtime and all the rigorous tests his theorems have been put through.
- Tical.
