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Albert Einstein
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E = M c2
M = (E) / (c2)
M = (9 x 1016) / (3 x 108)2
= (9 x 1016) / (9 x 1016)
= 1 kg
Amazing. That's a lotta energy. Like 2.85 gigawatt-years, according to my Casio !
What is the purpose of Einstein writing to Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
He wanted the president to confirm a new way of creating energy with Uranuim
What is an example of the objective theory of contracts?
The Pepsi Harrier Jet case. In a 1995 TV commercial Pepsi offered a Harrier jet as a reward for its Pepsi points customer give away. The ad said that the jet could be obtained for 7 million points. While the main method of obtaining Pepsi points was to drink Pepsi and redeem points from bottle caps, the company also allowed points to be purchased for ten cents each. John Leonard decided he was going to get that Harrier Jet.
The normal cost to obtain a Harrier jet was more than $23 million dollars. If Leonard bought all the points he would have needed to redeem for the jet it would cost him just $700,000. After raising money from friends and family, Leonard bought 7 million Pepsi points.
Attempting to enforce what he thought was a valid law of contract, he sent the 7 million points he had purchased, as well as 15 Points he had obtained from other means, and an order form on which he demanded that Pepsi supply him with a Harrier jet.
Biographical Evidence.
Because he worked with formulas which contained mathematical elements, the assumption is that Albert Einstein was an accomplished mathematician. However, biographical evidence is that he did not excel at higher levels of mathematical study, was frequently absent from lectures, and regularly given poor grades. His passion was for physics and he would employ the services of those more skilled in mathematics to check, edit and advise on his research papers before they were published. His second wife, who was also his cousin, served him well in this capacity.
Another Answer:
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist. He used mathematics, but he was not technically a mathematician.
Did Albert work at a patent office?
He never worked for the patent office in his life. He has many patents to his name but the patents came form work in his laboratories.
How did albert Einstein found out that E equals mc2?
The simplest derivation of this that I've seen considers an empty box far out in space, well away from the influence of any other matter or energy.
By Newton's laws of motion, the position of the center of mass of this box cannot change. But let's cause a photon to be emitted from one end of the box toward the other end; this photon has momentum, and therefore the box must recoil, moving in the opposite direction as the photon. Then the other end of the box absorbs the photon, stopping the motion of the box.
But now the box is in a slightly different position than before. Since the center of mass of the box cannot move, this must mean that the energy of the traveling photon has a mass equivalence.
Working the relevant equations leads directly to E = m * c^2
The actual route Einstein took to reach this conclusion was much different and less straightforward.
When did Einstein prove the theory of Relativity?
In November of 1919, at the age of 40, Albert Einstein became an overnight celebrity, thanks to a solar eclipse. An experiment had confirmed that light rays from distant stars were deflected by the gravity of the sun in just the amount he had predicted in his 1916 paper on his theory of gravity, general relativity. General relativity was the first major new theory of gravity since Isaac Newton's more than 250 years earlier.
It has never been proven, and it never will be. However, there is a vast amount of evidence consistent with it, and so far nothing has contradicted it either. Einstein didn't prove the theory -- he just created it.
The above paragraph is not entirely correct. There is the Gravity Probe B experiment which should provide some conclusive results regarding proving the theory in the near future. See the following links for more information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/index.html
http://einstein.stanford.edu/highlights/status1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Probe_B
The atomic clock has proven his time dialation to be correct.
One of the most important inventions is the penicillin which was discovered in 1928. Another very important invention was the invention of compass, which was discovered by ancient China in the 9th century.
Yes. He did not practice Judaism, but his Jewish identity was very strong. He was a supporter of Israel, and worked tirelessly against antisemitism.
Here are some quotes from Einstein regarding Jewish Identity.
"There are no German Jews, there are no Russian Jews, there are no American Jews....There are in fact only Jews."
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence-these are features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my lucky stars that I belong to it."
Why is Einstein's theory of special relativity so important?
In certain areas, it provides a better explanation of how our Universe works than previous theories - an explanation that is in close agreement with experiment.
Where did Thomas Engibous receive his education?
Thomas J. Engibous was born in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.
Why did albert Einstein become a refugee?
because he was Jewish and he lived in Germany during world war 2 so he had to move to America to not be persecuted
How did Albert Einstein make the theory of Relativity?
Albert Einstein stated that he came up with the theory of relativity by imagining himself sitting on a proton. He then imagined what it would look like if he could see the electromagnetic field of a proton. This lead to a long chain of thoughts that eventually ended in him forming the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein is on record as saying that he did not believe in a personal God. He said: "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
Einstein also said: "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive."
Einstein saw theistic religion as a man-made fiction. In a letter written in 1954, he said (translated from the original German): “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me."
Was albert einstain an atheist?
For Einstein the Word God was Devoid of the Divine.
Most mortals believe in a "personal God", in heaven and souls, in idols and all kinds of sacred follies - - - and they also believe that Einstein believed in God.
Not only Einstein's personal God had been dead all along. In fact God was never even alive according to Einstein.
According to Einstein, God is "a product of human weakness".
Einstein's quotes have been used by dealers of delusions to confuse the common man to fool him about Einstein's true religious beliefs. Einstein categorically rejected the supernatural.
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
, the quick answer is that Einstein (maybe) did not believe in a personal God. It is however, interesting how he arrived at that conclusion.
In developing the theory of relativity, Einstein realized that the equations led to the conclusion that the universe had a beginning. He didn't like the idea of a beginning, because he thought one would have to conclude that the universe was created by God. So, he added a cosmological constant to the equation to attempt to get rid of the beginning.
He said this was one of the worst mistakes of his life. Of course, the results of Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding and had a beginning at some point in the past. So, Einstein became a deist - a believer in an impersonal creator God:
"I'm NOT an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
Towards the Further Shore (Victor Gollancz, London, 1968), p. 156; quoted in Jammer, p. 97
"I am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views."
The Viereck interview with Einstein appeared first in the Saturday Evening Post (Oct. 26, 1929, p.17)
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Take a valid IQ test or some sort of standarized test that corresponds to your IQ.
Did Albert Einstein believed in Santa Claus?
Although he was Jewish, when he was a kid, he attended a Catholic elementary school -- because there was no Jewish school in Munich at the time. He enjoyed learning about Jesus -- even though he was bullied by the antisemitic kids.
He never converted, but in the last year of his life he said "If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker."
What did Albert Einstein write?
Well, Albert Einstein didn't know how to write. He only knew answers so even if he was the cleverest person in the world, he really didn't know how to write, only number's weird!
Can a Hindu boy who is married can marry again legally without giving divorce to his first wife?
No Muslim man or woman can marry a Hindu man or woman.
What is the name of the science that studies space?
Space research is any type of research that is done in space or relating to space. Some examples are experiments on how people age in space, if people get taller in zero gravity, and how weightlessness affects bone density. These answers can have implications for people on earth, even though first done in space.
Did Einstein study quantum mechanics?
actually einstein developed one of the earliest parts of quantum mechanics: the theory of the photoelectric effect. he worked directly with many of the scientists that later developed the complete theory of quantum mechanics and the mathematics to solve its apparent paradoxes to get usable predictions from the theory.
later he rejected it due to it being nondeterministic, not because he didn't understand quantum mechanics but because he did understand quantum mechanics. he then tried to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity, hoping the resulting unified field theory would resolve the nondeterminism of quantum mechanics, resulting in a single fully deterministic theory of everything.
Who is elder Newton or Einstein?
Isaac Newton was born in 1643, while Albert Einstein was born in 1879. Therefore, Newton is considered the elder of the two.
- Albert Einstein - known for his theory of relativity and contributions to the field of physics.
- Marie Curie - a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
- Isaac Newton - famous for his work on the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
