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Word: einsteins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Einstein, no experimenter, launched the idea that mass and energy are the same thing, in different states. The matter in the nucleus or core of the atom (which is practically all the matter there is) was conceived as a packet of energy in highly concentrated form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Origins | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...conversion of mass into energy, Einstein wrote what is probably the most important equation ever devised by man: E = mc2. This means simply that energy is equal to mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. Light's speed is so enormous" (186,000 miles a second), and its square (self-multiplication) so much more enormous still, that one pound of matter is equal to more than ten billion kilowatt-hours of energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Origins | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...those who then believed Einstein, his equation explained how radioactive metals could keep on shooting out particles and radiation for millions of years, and how the sun could continue shining for even longer ages. It also aroused Sunday-supplement dreams of driving an ocean liner around the world by releasing the atomic energy locked in a cupful of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Origins | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Albert Einstein, whose relativity theory is commonly supposed to be beyond the grasp of plain citizens, wrote a layman's "explanation" in 1916. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Reading | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...follows: "All the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function of s, a complex variable, lie on the line where sigma is ½-(sigma being the real part of s)." The theory was propounded in 1859 by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (who revolutionized geometry and laid the foundations for Einstein's theory of relativity). No layman has ever been able to understand it and no mathematician has ever proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: As You Were | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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