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Copyright © 2016 by Marie Benedict
August 4, 1948
I hope to learn, as I suggested long ago, if time is truly relative.
Mileva “Mitza” Marić Einstein
October 20, 1896
a mudra glava. A wise one.
the first year of the four-year program, known as Section Six.
the deformity that marked me since birth.
The Polytechnic was a new sort of college dedicated to producing teachers and professors for various math or scientific disciplines,
a game of whist.
my birthplace of remote Titel,
cathode rays
Using evacuated glass tubes, he bombarded the tubes’ metallic electrodes with high-voltage
electricity and then examined the rays. Lenard observed that, if the end of the tube opposite the negative charge was painted with a fluorescent material, a minuscule object within the tube began to glow and zigzag around the tube. This led him to believe that cathode rays were streams of ...
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I sensed God’s patterns unfolding in the physical laws of the universe that I was learning. These were the places I felt God, not in the pews of Mama’s churches or in their cemeteries.
“I use the word bohemian in the French manner, after the word bohémien. It means independent in your thinking. Progressive. Not so bourgeois as some of our classmates.”
Café Metropole,
I had learned something new about myself. The unevenness of my legs was not as marked on uneven terrain.
scared of stepping over the invisible divide and taking the risks that came with becoming the person I dreamed of being. “Thank
Wilhelm Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays.
my arrival at Heidelberg University,
The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed. Sir Isaac Newton Chapter 9 April 12, 1898 Zürich, Switzerland Dusted with an early spring snow and topped with the icy
thermodynamics,
the great physics masters Gustav Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz.
Was light made up of tiny particles, or ether, as Newton suggested, or was light a kind of shifting in the plenum, an invisible fluid surrounding us, as René Descartes believed? Or, in an idea by James Clerk Maxwell that transfixed us, was light really a dance of electric and magnetic fields intertwined?
could this notion—that light rays were electromagnetic oscillations—be proven by mathematical equations?
With a single word—unorthodox—Mr. Grossman had offered Albert a way to preserve his honor.
Engelbrecht means bright angel.”
Ein Stein, one stone.
Karl Pearson’s The Grammar of Science.
If the train left the station at rapid speeds approaching the speed of light, the clock’s hands would still move, but the train would be moving so quickly that light could not catch up with it. The faster the train accelerated, the slower the hands would move, ultimately freezing once the train reached the speed of light.
Time would effectively freeze. And if the train could go faster than the speed of light—an impossibility, but for argument’s sake, assumed—then time might roll backward.
Newton’s laws about the physical universe only applied...
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Time was relative to space. Time was not absolute. Not wh...
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the director of the Swiss Patent Office, Friedrich Haller.
we’ve been trying to bridge the divide between Newton with his matter and Maxwell with his light waves?”
if we shift our understanding of space and time.”
“The logical outcome is that the measurements of certain quantities—such as time—are relative to the velocity or speed of the observer, particularly if we assume that the speed of light is fixed
Space and time should be considered together and in relation to each other.
Newton’s classic laws of mechanical physics remain accurate but only in situat...
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“Two events that appear concurrent when observed from one spot can no longer be considered concurrent when observed from another spot that is moving relative to it.”
quantum
Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis.
My new theory on relativity had revealed that time may not have the same fixed qualities that Newton, along with nearly every other physicist and mathematician since him, once believed.
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.”
my name was nowhere to be seen. Mileva Marić Einstein didn’t even appear in a footnote.
once Europe’s most esteemed physics professor Max Planck began teaching relativity to his students, other physicists began inquiring about the four articles we’d published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905,
The beginning of their partnership had been giddy as they hammered out the notion that gravity creates a distortion in space-time geometry and, in fact, bends it.
They delved into a version of space-time geometry invented by Georg Friedrich Riemann and played with various vectors and tensors.
