Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fitzgerald discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down...
Only a superb mind could note and keep track of all those people, all their attributes, all their movements. Albert Einstein's is such a superb mind...
...Einstein world is a great "field" which has height, breadth, depth and time as its elements. Measuring those four elements requires a new kind of geometry?fourth dimensional geometry, Einstein geometry. It is infinitely more complicated than Euclidean geometry taught at high schools and colleges...
Special Theory of Relativity. Einstein did not develop his conception of the world suddenly. He began by suspecting that nothing in the world was privileged, neither matter, nor motion, nor anything else. His suspicion led to the perception that there is one great physical law which describes everything...
...flowing through a wire coiled around a piece of iron makes that iron magnetic. As a piece of wire passes between the prongs of a horseshoe magnet, an electric current is generated. James Clerk Maxwell showed that the laws of electricity and of magnetism were very much alike. Albert Einstein, in 1905. showed that the forces were different aspects of the same mother force...