How Albert Einstein changed the Universe?

Ernest Ventura 20Nov04

How Albert Einstein changed the Universe?

Scientist of all the geniuses and genius of all the scientists he is. From televisions to radios, computers to cell phones, in almost field of science he has his fingerprint marked. He proved the existence of the smallest particle of matter and reconfigured humankind’s perspective of the universe. The world and quality of life is 360 degrees different before him. He is the man of the past century.

Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. Year 1905 is what historians refer to as Annus Mirabilis or Einstein’s Miracle Year. On that year, he provided a new way of calculating the size of molecules. He made the first satisfactory theoretical treatment of the Brownian motion that resulted to a proof that atoms really exist- still an issue at that time and ended an old debate on the fundamental nature of the chemical elements. He proposed the photoelectric effect, contradicting a hundred-year-old tradition of considering light energy a manifestation of continuous processes or of its wave nature. Though he didn’t invent the atomic bomb, his famous equation E=mc² laid the theoretical background for it. This is known as his Special Theory of Relativity. Einstein did all of that in the same year.

Year 1911, he addressed the question, “Why is the sky blue?” He calculated the detailed formula for the scattering of light from molecules; and this was found true with experiment. Year 1916, he completed the mathematical formulation of his General Theory of Relativity, an expansion to his Special Theory of Relativity which included gravitation as a determiner of curvature of space-time continuum and represented gravitation as a field, not a force.

People after Newton called him lucky for there is only one universe to discover, and he discovered it. Year 1919, A very rare six-minute total solar eclipse aided an experiment which sided on Einstein’s general theory of relativity where space and time are not absolute. This is in contrary with the long existing Newtonian view of the universe where space and time are absolute. Therefore, we no longer live in a Newtonian universe but in Einsteinan universe. Year 1922, Einstein received the Nobel Prize in physics for the year before, especially for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Year 1924, Einstein generalized Bose's theory to an ideal gas of identical atoms or molecules for which the number of particles is conserved and he also predicted that at sufficiently low temperatures the particles would become

locked together in the lowest quantum state of the system. Recent developments of BECs are being used to create atom lasers, the equivalent of a laser made of light; in the study of superconductivity; superfluidity and in refining measurements of time and distance. In 1950, he presented his unified field theory, which attempts to explain gravitation, electromagnetism, and subatomic phenomena in one set of laws. He concluded its mathematical formulation in 1953, just two years before his death in 1955 at the age of 76.

The ninety-ninth element in the periodic table was discovered shortly after Einstein's death in 18 April 1955, and it was named "einsteinium.” What more could we ask of a man to personify the past 100 years?

Like other geniuses such as Sir Isaac Newton as well as Bill Gates, Albert Einstein is rumored to fall in the autistic spectrum. Albert Einstein possesses some of characteristics that show signs of autism. When he was a child, he was considered retarded even by his own parents because he didn't speak until he was four, and not fluently in his own language until age eight or nine. Many people in his family are autistic. An autistic brain has a cerebrum larger than normal, and a cerebellum smaller than normal. An autopsy of his brain showed that his cerebrum was indeed larger than normal. He never learned how to drive a car.

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." --Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

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