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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein |
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
My name is Albert Einstein. I was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm,
Germany. I was not an inventor in the conventional sense. I was a physicist
and theorist. My inventions were not tangible things, but ideas I put on paper
and may later on have led to inventions. I was not a good student in school. I
did not pay attention to teachers because I found their lectures and teachings
boring. Often I would skip class to go study physics on my own. By the age of
twelve I had taught myself Euclidean Geometry, and slowly beginning to develope
my own theories in physics.
My first theoretical paper was on Brownian motion. The paper discussed
the significant predictions I made about particles that are randomly distributed
in a fluid. My next paper was on the photoelectric effect, which contained a
revolutionary hypothesis on the nature of light. I proposed that under certain
circumstances light can be considered as consisting of particles, and I also
hypothesized that energy carried by any light particle, called a photon, is
proportional to the frequency of the radiation. The formula for this is E=hv,
where E is the radiation, h is a universal constant known as Planck's constant,
and v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta,
contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a
manifestation of continuous processes.
My third and most impotant paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies", contained what has become known as the special theory of relativity.
Since the time of Sir Issac Newton, scientists had been trying to understand
the nature of matter and radiation, and how they interacted in some unified
world picture. The position that mechanical laws are fundamental has become
known as the mechanical world view, and the position that electrical laws are
fundamental has become known as the electromagnetic world view. Neither
approach, however, is capable of providing a consistent explanation for the way
radiation and matter interact when viewed from different inertial frames of
reference, that is, an interaction vie
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