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Albert Einstein is possibly the most famous scientist who ever lived! One of his better known achievements is the very simple equation: E = mc2. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect, and he also developed the Theory of Relativity.

His contributions amounted to a radical change in world view. Before Einstein, certain things were simply assumed to be true. Among them were the "laws" gravity and falling bodies as they had been outlined by Isaac newton. Also, it was generally believed that 'time' itself was a physical constant: Everyone and everything would experience the passage of time the same way as everyone and everything else. His theory of special relativity predicted that this was not true, and was later validated by experiments with atomic clocks.

Einstein's work shows that while Newton's equations work for moving objects that are part of our observed world, including the planets, the concepts of velocity, gravity and time work much differently when you are dealing with the speed of light. Mass and time change in amazing ways when objects approach the speed of light. beau.hanrahan rules

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