... Germany and joined his family in Italy. He finished high school in Switzerland; were he graduated with a teaching degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, however he did not find a job until 1902 at the Swiss patent office. He worked there for seven years. In 1903 he married ... is constant. When moving at high speeds time, weight, and mass get compressed. Einstein said it happens because energy is equal to mass times the speed of light square, it is usually represented as E = mc2. He became famous and was highly respected. When the war in Berlin broke out his wife and ... ...

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... in the spacecraft. Depending on his speed in transit, he might open door to find himself on Earth in the year 2100! The amount of time dilation depends upon the speed of the trip "the closer the astronaut gets to the speed of light, the more the Earth years get compressed in his frame of reference. By traveling very close to the speed of light, the astronaut could return to ... find that thousands or even millions of years had passed on our planet during the short ... would go backwards in time. However, faster-than-light travel cannot be achieved by straightforward acceleration, for a...

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... relativity is a true we would need to conduct an experiment in which we would send an rocket with a person in it at 99.99% the speed of light then come back to earth and told us the information he reordered, then maybe we"ll know for sure. Now, according to Einstein you can't travel at ... acceleration, to keep it moving. No rocket engine could do this. Also, in fact, as far as we know nothing can match, or exceed the speed of light. Plus, there are many theories on quantum mechanics, which disproves Einstein's theory. We may never know for sure which theory is correct. It's possible tha...

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... works like this. Imagine we have two identical twins, Peter and Paul. Peter gets into a rocket and travels to a star ten light years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year which is approximately 9.4607 × 10 12 km (Crockett, 2013). He moves at 80% the speed of light. When he gets to the star, he turns around and comes back at the same ... speed. Twenty-five years would have elapsed on earth but only fifteen years for the traveller. When he gets out from the spaceship, he is surprised to see that ... his identical twin is aged an extra ten years. Theoretically, if ...

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... it took to travel that distance. This will give you the speed the object was traveling at. Speed (S) equals distance (D) divided by time (T), (S=D/T). E=mc2 is the foundation of all matter. E= in the equation stands for energy , M= stands for mass, and C= stands for the speed of light. All of these letters are a matter of choice. The letters themselves are not important. What is important is the idea. E=mc2 did ... not lead directly to the building of the atomic bomb. The formula suggested that splitting an atom would release a great deal of energy. When mass becomes energy, it does so ...

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... traveling anywhere in our universe, time slows as an object reaches the speed of light, according to Einstein's theory of special relativity. This makes scientists believe that if we could somehow travel faster than the speed of light, that we can travel backward and forward in time. In fact, all of us have already experienced teeny bits of time travel many times in our lives. If you think about ... it, while traveling in a car, train, or plane, you reach speeds that get closer to the speed of light, which means that we have already actually ... goes on space shuttle, once to person in...

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... second paper presented a mathematical theory of the motion of molecules. The third paper most famous paper was the special theory of relativity. An example of his theory of relativity was, if there were twins and if one twin flew into space in a rocket going near the speed of light, and returned after 40 years ... , he would appear to have aged only slightly, whereas his identical twin who had remained on earth would be old and wrinkled. This was due to the slowing down of time for the man on the ... said that all mass is equivalent to energy. It is the most famous formulas ever to come ...

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... generate constant electrical signals. These signals can be displayed for instance, on a electronic clock display. The first of these clocks in mass-production used LEDs or Light Emitting Diode display. These were later replaced by LCDs or Liquid Crystal Display. Today, the most accurate of locks is believed to be the atomic clock. Scientists discovered some time ago that atoms and molecules have ... , which said that time and space are absolute. Einstein also had a theory of quantum light, that light existed in small tiny particles (photons), along with his idea that we live in a quantum...

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... 's second paper proposed what is today called the Special Theory of Relativity. He based his theory on a reinterpretation of the original principle of relativity; namely the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. As a second basic hypothesis, Einstein assumed that the speed of light remained constant in all frames of reference. Later in 1905 Einstein showed how mass and energy were equivalent ... . Einstein wasn't the first to propose all the components of the Special Theory of Relativity. His contribution helped unify important parts of the classical mechani...

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... paper Einstein wrote proposed the special theory of relativity. Einstein based his special theory of relativity on a reinterpretation of the classical principal of relativity, which states that the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. One of the fundamental parts of Einstein's theory was that he assumed that the speed of light remained constant in all frames of reference. Einstein's third paper, which is much ... less recognized, concerned the field of statistical mathematics, which had ... ...

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... physics in 1921. Einstein's second paper proposed the theory of relativity,  . He based his new theory on a reinterpretation of the principle of relativity. That the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. As a second hypothesis, Einstein assumed that the speed of light remained constant in all frames of reference. The third major paper concerned Brownian motion, an ... irregular motion of microscopic particles suspended in a liquid or gas it confirmed ... the atomic theory of matter. And he did all of this before he held an academic position. ... ...

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