Friday, December 21, 2012

Einstein greatest 5 accomplishment


Hi welcome back. So far I have covered a narrow spectrum of Einstein’s life. So this time I would like to cover what I think are his greatest accomplishments. Counting down from #5.

#5. Partial lite theory
This was important I think it opened all kinds of new doers for physics. It pretty much sates that lite travels in partials not just waves.
In 1905 Albert Einstein had proposed a solution to the problem of observations made on the behavior of light having characteristics of both wave and particle theory. From work of Plank on emission of light from hot bodies, Einstein suggested that light is composed of tiny particles called photons, and each photon has energy. Light theory branches in to the physics of quantum mechanics, which was conceptualized in the twentieth century. Quantum mechanics deals with behavior of nature on the atomic scale or smaller. As a result of quantum mechanics, this gave the proof of the dual nature of light and therefore not a contradiction.”

#4. Why the sky is blue
Here is a question people have been asking for centuries. Einstein finely figured it out cool right. It is pretty much caused by how the lite reflex off the particles in the atmosphere until the lite hits our eyes. The logger wavelengths pass state throw the atmosphere, but the shorter blue ones get bounced arrowed till they reach our eyes.

#3. Nobel prize
In 1920 Einstein won the Nobel physics prize. Although it was not for his most fames equation or theory of relativity. Instead it was for his particle lite theory. This was due to the fact that so few people understood it at the time few people still do. It was a good thing he got it to his kind from his divorce wife lived in Switzerland just after WW2 and they needed the money to survive.

#2. E=Mc^2
I have actually talked about this in one of my previous post “The A-bomb” for technical refrains go there.
This equation was one of the many things that came to Einstein in his dreams.

#1. Theory of relativity
This was definitely Einstein’s greatest accomplishment. This theory completely changed how we looked at the universe. It clams space and time as one object not two. The theory describes them as a fabric and gravity as an effect caused by mater. Like putting a marble on a taunt fabric the bigger and heaver the marble the grater the distortion or gravitational pull.
An important aspect of Einstein's theory of relativity to note is that he proposed matter causes space to curve. If we pretend that "space" is a two-dimensional sheet, a planet place on this "sheet" would cause it to curve (see diagram below). This curvature of space results in what we perceive as gravity. Smaller objects are attracted to larger ones because they "roll" through the curved space towards the most massive objects, which cause the greatest degree of curvature. In relation to time, this curvature causes the gravitational time dilation effect. Under normal circumstances, this effect is impossible to observe. However, in the presence of the extremes of our universe (such as black holes, where a huge amount of matter is compressed into an extremely small volume), this effect becomes much more obvious. To a distant observer, an object falling into a black hole would appear to never reach it, due to time dilation causing time to "progress" extremely slower, at least relative to the distant observer (the object in question, however, would very rapidly be destroyed by the black hole).”

These 5 are just a few of his many accomplishments. Einstein has contributed greatly to the ideals of modern physics. All though that’s not all he has done I just can’t think of anything ells right now.

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