Albert Einstein

Einstein often asked himself questions about the nature of the universe and how things work. He was particularly curious about the fundamental laws of physics and the relationship between space, time, and energy. His relentless pursuit of understanding led him to develop groundbreaking theories, such as the theory of relativity.

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Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1905 paper on the photo-electric effect, in which light hitting a metal surface could generate electricity. This was the theoretical basis for all of the solar power collectors that you see everywhere.

In this case, the fact that he was German has nothing to do because he was a Jew both coming from the mother's side and father for countless generations. You can compare in many photos in which he appears with other non-Jewish Europeans that their skin was not so pale. Actually, there are Jews with very pale skin, but it was not the case.

An apocryphal story has Einstein being asked that exact question, and responding with, "I can't explain relativity in less than three days. And, unless you understand advanced mathematics, you won't understand a thing!"

Being a theoretical physicist was important to Albert Einstein because it allowed him to explore complex scientific theories, such as the theory of relativity, that revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and gravity. Einstein's work paved the way for countless advancements in physics and has had a profound impact on our modern world.

Classical electrodynamics said that light energy was a wave, and that atoms absorbed that energy the same way that an object absorbs radiant heat. Thus, the more intense the light, the more energy would be absorbed by the atoms in a metal. When the electrons in a metal got enough energy from the incoming wave, it would be possible for that electron to shoot out from the atoms in the metal. The more energy absorbed, the more energetic would be the electrons coming from the metal. Also, until each atom got enough light energy, no electrons could possibly be expelled. Light frequency didn't matter nearly as much as intensity.

The photo-electric effect defied this approach in many ways:

1) No matter how intense was the light, if it was below a certain frequency, no electrons came out. If the light was above this frequency, increasing the intensity increased the NUMBER of electrons coming out, but not their energy.

2) No matter how dim was the light, electrons were coming out of the metal almost instantaneously.

3) Increasing the frequency of the light resulted in more energetic electrons coming from the metal, even if the intensity was decreased.

Explaining this via classical electrodynamics was pretty much impossible. Einstein showed that a VERY radical assumption made explaining all of them almost trivial.

Like almost all children, young Einstein had an intense curiosity about the workings of the natural world. He was also intensely able to (1) ask questions few had bothered to ask and (2) find answers to these questions. This helped him to never lose the curiosity he had as a child, which is a prerequisite for becoming a scientist.

Like all good scientists, Eddington was interested in advancing knowledge through experimentation. General relativity made very specific predictions about what would be observed under certain conditions, and Eddington was one of many people who wanted to test whether these observations were true. When they turned out to be very close to what Einstein predicted, Eddington achieved what all good scientists do -- experimental test of a hypothesis.

Nothing -- he was not an inventor, but a theoretical physicist.

None of his theories came from accidents. He would see a common phenomena (a clock advancing in time as he rode a trolley, or a person working on scaffolding), think about the physical significance of it (What would I see if my trolley was moving away from the clock, faster than the speed of light? How would a falling person experience the laws of our Universe?), and then spend YEARS working out the mathematics of these thoughts. For example, the start of general relativity was during his "happiest thought" in 1907; his final paper on the subject came out in 1916.

His theoretical work DID allow him and Leo Szilard to develop a plan for a refrigerator that had no moving parts, which they patented in 1930. It is unclear if Einstein did any significant scientific work on this project. The rights to this concept was purchased by a Swedish company, but is has never resulted in any major, practical appliances.

Around 1900, there was a huge debate amongst scientists on whether the molecular hypothesis of nature -- ie that matter consisted of moving particles -- was something worthy of study. Basically, there was no experiment that had a result that required the existence of molecules. For that reason, many (if not most) scientists thought that only macroscopic, measurable entities (pressure, temperature) should be studied.

Einstein showed that the Brownian Motion of small dust particles could only be explained as the random strikes of molecules in the atmosphere against the dust particle. Assuming the existence of molecules made the explanation of Brownian Motion trivial, assuming the opposite made an explanation impossible.

I could not find anything remotely resembling such a statement amongst quotes from Einstein. Even if these words are somewhere attributed to Einstein, I seriously doubt any source will be listed. It is a sad but true fact that people place words in wise men like Einstein in order to bolster support the idea -- for example, the famous statement about insanity, often attributed to him, did not exist till almost twenty years after Einstein died.

1) Avoid getting his fiancee pregnant prior to their marriage.

2) Stay married to his first wife, or faithful to his second.

3) Treat either of his wives as more than servants.

4) Be comfortable with social interactions.

5) Learn how to write well in a non-German language.

6) Recognize that quantum mechanics is a valid description of our Universe.

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Einstein's theory of relativity describes the physics of large objects in the universe, while quantum physics explains the behavior of particles at the smallest scales. They clash because they have different conceptual frameworks and mathematical descriptions of the universe. Einstein struggled to accept the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics and believed there might be a more complete underlying theory that unified both areas of physics.

Einstein's Relativity Theory is at odds with quantum physics because Einstein's theory works at a macroscopic level, while quantum physics works at an atomic level, and things at the atomic level work differently from the macroscopic level.

It's very easy to do so.

Show that a theory (or hypothesis) being true would result in a certain observation. Then show that this observation is NOT found.

For example, if dinosaurs and humans both existed on this planet in the last 10,000 years (as creationists contend), then we should find BOTH human DNA and dinosaur DNA. We easily find human DNA in bones amongst rocks dated over 50,000 years old; but we've never found one single dinosaur bone with one speck of DNA. Thus, the idea that dinosaurs and humans both existed on this planet at some point in the last 10,000 years has been completely refuted -- no intelligent person dedicated to scientific truth can hold to it. It has been proven false.

Einstein submitted his paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" on 1905 June 30, and it was published on September 26 of that year.

Einstein proposed many ideas about EM waves (ie, light) that have been shown to be correct:

1) That EM waves come in packets (now known as photons) and the energy of each photon depends on the frequency of that light.

2) The speed of light will be measured as the same, no matter how fact the observor is moving. From this postulate, one can derive the Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction, time dilation, and mass increase.

3) That Rayleight Scattering, when occuring in a fluid with rapid density fluctuations, will result in a blue sky, not a milky white one. The question, "Why is the sky blue?" has a far more complicated answer than almost everyone realizes.

The award was announced on 1922 November 9th, and the ceremoney took place on December 10. Einstein was simply unable to arrange transport to Sweden in that amount of time. He MIGHT have been a bit miffed that he was awarded the Prize for his work on the photo-electric effect, and not on relativity, so he MIGHT have felt little incentive to make the effort to attend. Note the word "might," the previous sentence is pure speculation.

I would think his BRAIN! but that is not a verified fact known to me.

Lieserl Einstein was the daughter of Albert Einstein, born to his first wife in 1902 prior to their marriage in 1903. Little is known of her, because she either died or was adopted, and neither Einstein or his family ever elaborated on her fate.

Several:

1) By making the radical postulate that light in a vacuum would always be measured at the same speed, no matter how fast the measurer was traveling, he was able to derive the Lorentz-Fitzgeral Contraction. Previously, this "solution" was just an ad-hoc idea, made up with a wave of the hand. This assumption also made other predictions, each of which have proven to be correctly predicted.

2) The above postulate also allowed him to derive that the rest mass of an object has an amazing amount of energy. Again, this idea was previously just a mathematical "fix."

3) Although Max Planck had previously noted that the concept of light coming in "chunks" of energy allowed the derivation of the spectrum of black body radiation, Planck (mostly) thought of this as a mathematical curiosity with no connection to physical reality. Einstein showed that this same assumption allowed a very simple explanation of the photo-electric effect -- thus furthering the idea that the chunks (later called "photons") were real, physical objects. If you cut and paste this into your homework without reading this sentence, you deserve an 'F'.

4) A huge debate in physics in the 1800s was whether atoms were objects with measurable effects, or just a mathematically useful trick. Einstein was able to show that Brownian Motion could only be described by the former idea.

5) He developed the statistics themodynamics of molecular vibrations, both in crystals and in gases. Doing so answered the question, "Why is the sky blue?" -- prior to Einstein's work, scientists could only predict a white sky.

6) By incorporating gravity into relativity, he was able to show that mass "warps" space such that a large mass -- like our Sun -- would cause light from distant stars to seem to bend their path when near that mass. When this was confirmed experimentally, Einstein became (literally) an overnight sensation.

7) He refined an idea of Indian physicist Satyendra Bose on the statistical mechanics of a large number of photons, such that the concept is now called "Bose-Einstein Statistics." Particles that follow these ideas are called "bosons."