(A RELATIVELY COOL GENIUS)

BORN | 1879 IN GERMANY 

MIRACLE YEARS |1905:HIS SPECIAL THEORY OF RFLATIVITY IS BORN ; AT 26,HE FORMULATES THE FAMOUS EQUATION  E=MC2

DIED | DIES OF HEART FAILURE ON APRIL 16,1955

COOL QUOTES | “IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE SCIENTIFICALLY, BUT IT WOULD MAKE NO SENSE; IT WOULD BE WITHOUT MEANING, AS IF YOU DESCRIBED A BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY AS A VARIATION OF WAVE PRESSURE.”

“GRAVITY CAN’T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING IN LOVE.”

“THE HARDEST THING TO UNDERSTAND IS INCOME TAX.”

WHO IS THIS DUDE ?

 Every physicist’s dream come true and every hairstylist’s nightmare, Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and the most important scientist of the 20^th century.He founded the special and general theories of relativity and also had a hand in deciphering  quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics , and cosmology . He was awarded  the 1921 Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 and for his services to theoretical Physics.In 1919, British eclipse expeditions confirmed light rays from distant star were deflected by the gravity of  the  sun in the amount Einstein had predict in his theory of relativity-the revelation brought him instant, long-lasting fame worldwide.

WHAT MAKES HIM COOL ?

Between 1905 and 1925,Einstein transformed humankind’s understanding on nature on every scale,from the smallest to that of the cosmos as a whole.Now a century he began to make his mark,we are still exploring Einstein’s universe.The problem he could not solve remain the ones that define the cutting edge, the most tantalizing and compelling.

WHAT IS THE THEORY OF RELATIVIY ?  

The heart of the theory is different observers moving at different rates of speed will find that the laws of Physics and the speed of the light remain the same,even though they will have different perceptions of the time and distance. Because of this, simultaneous events can appear to happen at different times, or events happening hours apart to one person could happen at the same time to another.In other words, your reality is determined by your point of view.

THE   THEORY   PROPOSES   SEVERAL   HYPOTHESIS:

• THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS CONSTANT.FOR ALL OBSERVERS, REGARDLESS OF THE MOTION OF THE OBSERVERS OR OF THE SOURCE OF THE LIGHT, THE SPEED OF LIGHT REMAIN THE SAME.

• THE SPEED OF THE LIGHT IS THE FASTEST ACHIEVABLE SPEED IN UNIVERSE.

• MASS AND ENERGY ARE RELATED TO (E=MC2).

• OBJECTS APPEAR TO CONTRACT IN LENGTH AS THEY APPROACH THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

• THE RATE OF MOVING CLOCK SEEMS TO DECREASE AS ITS VELOCITY INCREASES.

• EVENTS THAT APPEAR TO BE SIMULTANEOUS TO AN OBSERVER IN ONE SYSTEMMAY NOT APPEAR SO TO AN OBSERVER IN ANOTHER SYSTEM.

GENERAL RELATIVITY IS AN EXTENNSION OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY, BUT IT IS MAINLY  A THEORY OF GRAVITY.IT DEFINES GRAVITY AS A CURVATURE OF THE FOUR-DIMENSIOL SPACE-TIME SUGGESTED BY SPECIAL RELATIVITY.

THE SCIENTIST  HIMSELF  HAD THE BEST-POSSIBLE  EXPLANATION  FOR HIS FAMOUS THEORY : “ WHEN YOU SIT WITH A NICE GIRL FOR TWO HOUR’S, IT SEEMS LIKE TWO MINUTES.WHEN YOU SIT ON A HOT STOVE FOR TWO MINUTES, IT SEEMS LIKE TWO HOURS-THAT’S RELATIVITY.”

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