Who was Albert Einstein? -- Gravity -- Time -- Space -- Light -- Relativity -- Einstein's miraculous year: 1905 -- The four papers -- Theory of special relativity -- Time dilation -- The twin paradox -- Length contraction -- The 4D universe -- E=mc² -- The general theory of relativity -- Einstein's strange discoveries -- The shape of the universe -- Proof! -- Publication of relativity -- Einstein the celebrity -- Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in 1921 -- What Einstein's discoveries contributed to the modern world -- What we know now -- What's next for Einstein's theory of relativity?
Summary:
Understand how Einstein came to write the most famous equation in history and see how the world was changed forever. This step-by-step journey through Einstein's mind takes his original manuscripts and makes the accessible to budding scientists everywhere.
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