Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Bibilography
♥ 6:56 AM
Websites used for reference:
http://www.scienceagogo.com/www.aip.org/history/einsteinwww.humboldt1.com/Book(s): Einstein : His life and Universe
by Isaacson Walter
Images :
www.google.com.sgThis concludes my report. =D
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Why I chose him.
♥ 6:26 AM
I chose to write about Albert Einstein as he was the first name I recognized on the list of people.
When choosing to write about famous people,
Albert Einstein’s name was the first one that came to mind.
Who has not heard of that guy?
I also wanted to find out what inspires him to create those theories
that managed to transform physics and change the world we live in today.
To me, there has to be something that makes him a genius.
I want to know why everyone calls him that. Such people do not come easily.
With the present and past both calling him a genius,
he is definitely significant enough to have a news product about him.
Hans Christian Anderson wrote fairytales,
which are much much easier to understand compared to Einstein’s theories on relativity. As he made a lot of discoveries,
it would be easier for me to find out how he changed the world.
Unlike the others, I can be assured that he did positively alter the course of history.
There is also the matter of rumors that are surrounding him.
I want to find things out for myself,
to see whether he was really an unfaithful husband and so on.
Geniuses are also humans, they also have lives.
Thus wanting to satisfy my own curiosity about him,
is also another reason why I chose to write on him.
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Albert Einstein : How he changed the world.
♥ 6:21 AM
One specific event that positively changed the course of history
was the formation of the Theory of Relativity,
also known as E = MC(square),
where E stands for energy,
M stands for mass and
C(square) stands for the square of the speed of light.
This equation forms the General Theory of Relativity,
which mean when a ray of light passes near a massive body,
the ray should be bent, thus causing an eclipse of some sort.
To prove that the theory is true, Einstein conducted a dramatic experiment.
Specifically, he predicted the degree to which light from a distant star would be observed to curve as it went through the strong gravitational field close to the sun.
A solar eclipse was spotted on May 1919,
thus proving that his General Theory of Relativity works.
Scientists succeeded in photographing stars near the Sun.
Thus Einstein became famous, and he transformed physics in a big way.
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Albert Einstein : Wars
♥ 6:18 AM
Years later, World War 1 happened, just when he wanted a divorce with Mileva Maric.
Both the war and the divorce proceedings came to a messy resolution at the end of 1918.
With the outbreak of war, Einstein had become an outspoken public figure.
He demanded that the Germany left-wing government then to immediately call open elections, thereby enforcing democracy.
He also marries his cousin Elsa during the 1919s.
As time flies, the political situation in Germany continued to darken.
By then Einstein had already made trips to America, where he was practically a celebrity,
with his status as a genius.
When Adolf Hitler took power as the new chancellor of Germany,
it was no longer safe for Einstein to stay.
He ended up moving to Belgium, then America months later.
Years passed, and there was an outbreak of war, also known as WW2.
During this period, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt warning the possibility of Germany building an atomic bomb,
and thus urging America to do nuclear research.
Einstein regrets what he did though, when America dropped the 2 bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Albert Einstein : Background.
♥ 4:42 AM
Albert Einstein,
most famously known for his theories on relativity, was born to middle-class Jews in Germany on March 14, 1879.
To peoples’ surprise, this genius was not known for his speaking abilities when he was younger. His younger sister of 2 years, Maja, said
”Every sentence he uttered, no matter how routine, he repeated to himself softly, moving his lips.”
Nonetheless, his slow development actually helped him to discover his theories,
as an ordinary adult never bothers his head about space and time.
Thus he only began to wonder about it when he was already grown.
He excelled in other areas, however.
With his excellent grades, it was no surprise that he qualified for his choice school, the Zurich Polytechnic.
It was a key aspect of his life.
This was where he met his first wife, Mileva Maric,
who would help with the forming of his theories.
She was, over time, Einstein’s muse, partner, lover, wife and antagonist,
and she created an emotional field more powerful than that of anyone else in his life.
He managed to graduate in August 1900,
although not with good grades as he did badly for his last paper.
However Mileva could not graduate as she scored worse than Einstein.
They got married in January, 1903.
A year later, their first son, Hans Albert Einstein was born.
His second son Eduard was born during the 1910s.
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