Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time (Great Discoveries Book 0)

by Michio Kaku

“Through the reading of popular books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true,”

Rotating in four-dimensional space unifies the concept of space and time, turning one into the other as the velocity is increased. This beautiful, elegant concept, that symmetry unifies seemingly dissimilar entities into a pleasing, harmonious whole, guided Einstein for the next fifty years.

The laws of physics in an accelerating frame or a gravitating frame are indistinguishable.

“When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn’t notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t notice.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving,”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

All physical knowledge at the fundamental level is contained in two pillars of physics, general relativity and the quantum theory. Einstein was the founder of the first, was the godfather of the second, and paved the way for the possible unification of both.