This year was the 100th anniversary of the relativity
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| ALBERT EINSTEIN AND HIS WIFE ELSA |
Einstein (1879-1955) changed the understanding of how the physical world works. He was born in Ulm, Germany and showed at an early age an interest in machineries. His father was an electrical engineer. He attended the technical college in Zurich. In 1901 he became a Swiss national and worked at the patent office in Bern. During this time he continued his own research. In 1905 he became a doctor of physics.
After that he started to formulate the ideas which changed the concepts of physics established by Sir Isaac Newton. His special theory of relatively was that the speed of light was fixed and any physical objects ( spacecraft) could not travel faster. He proved that objects shrink when reaching the speed of light and their mass increases and time slows down.
In 1916 he established four-dimensional description of the Universe. He called it space time which turns time into length, width and depth. Over decades this theory had been repeatedly confirmed.
After Einstein published his papers on the special theory of relativity he was able to move from the patent office to a number of academic positions in Europe. Eventually he took up a position in Berlin in 1914 as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for physics. He worked there till 1933.
Einstein’s fame grew when his general relativity was confirmed by the British astronomer Arthur Eddington. In spite of only a few people could understand his work he became world famous and a symbol of the ultimate achievements of science.
Einstein received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921. It was not for his special theory of relativity but for theory set out in 1905 how the photoelectric cells work.
Albert Einstein left Germany in 1933 because he was Jewish. It was the year when the Nazis came to power. He first lived in France but then moved to Princeton in the USA. He continued his research at the Institute of Advance Study.
In 1939 Einstein contacted Franklin D Roosevelt advising him to start manufacture atomic weapons to counteract the production of weapons in Germany. After the war he tried hard to stop the Cold War arms race. Although he described the fission of radio-active material which came from special relativity. Einstein had no part in the manufacturing these weapons.
In his later years with his greatest work written he gave the impression of an eccentric, anti-establishment figure but still respected for being a pacifist.
In 1952 he declined the presidency of Israel.
Even today after all the great developments in the technical world which open up space and gave a greater knowledge to mankind; Einstein’s work still stands.
Based on his theories Professor Stephen Hawking and others attempting to produce a unified theory to explain how the entire University works.
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