Einstein

Evalyn Gates transports us to the edge of science to explore the tool that unlocks the secrets of dark matter and dark energy. Based on the theory of general relativity, gravitational lensing, or 'Einstein's Telescope', is enabling discoveries that are taking us towards the next revolution in scientific thinking--one that may change our understanding of where the Universe came from and where it is going

The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest thought, 1906-1909 -- The wandering professor, 1909-1914 -- General relativity, 1911-1915 -- Divorce, 1916-1919 -- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 -- Fame, 1919 -- The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 -- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 -- Unified field theories, 1923-1931 -- Turning fifty, 1929-1931 -- Einstein's God -- The refugee, 1932-1933 -- America, 1933-1939 -- Quantum entanglement, 1935 -- The bomb, 1939-1945 -- One-worlder, 1945-1948 -- Landmark, 1948-1953 -- Red scare, 1951-1954 -- The end, 1955 -- Epilogue: Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind.

Einstein when he's at home / Roger Highfield -- The freest man / Gino C. Sergè -- Mentor and sounding board / John Archibald Wheeler -- My Einstein suspenders / George F. Smoot -- Einstein, Moe, and Joe / Leon M. Lederman -- The true and the absurd / Charles Seife -- Albert Einstein: a scientific reactionary / Frank J. Tipler --- Helen Dukas: Einstein's compass / George Dyson -- My three Einsteins / Corey S. Powell -- In search of Einstein / Lee Smolin -- Einstein and absolute reality / Anton Zeilinger -- A walk down Mercer Street / Steven Strogatz -- Things and thoughts / Peter Galison -- Childe Bernstein to relativity came / Jeremy Bernstein -- The books in the basement / George Johnson -- How he thought / Leonard Suskind -- Toward a moving train / Janna Levin -- Einstein's tie / Marcelo Gleiser -- The greatest discvoery Einstein didn't make / Rocky Kolb -- The gift of time / Richard A. Muller -- Flying apart / Paul C.W. Davies -- Einstein in the Twilight Zone / Lawrence M. Krauss -- No beginning and no end / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Where is Einstein? / Maria Spiropulu.

Chronology of Einstein's mistakes -- I will resign the game -- A lovely time in Berne -- And yet it moves -- If I have seen farther -- A storm broke loose in my mind -- Motions of inanimate, small, suspended bodies -- What is the light quantum? -- The argument is jolly and beguiling -- Suddenly I had an idea -- The theory is of incomparable beauty -- The world is a madhouse -- Does God play dice? -- The graveyard of disappointed hopes -- Postmortem

Journey into the mind of a genius-- and, with the help of some whimsical computer animation, visualize experiments only Einstein could imagine.

Based on book, E=mc2 : a biography of the world's most famous equation, by David Bodanis. Dramatizes how Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier and Lise Maitner, whose innovative thinking across four centures helped lead to E=mc2, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom