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

Part I. Reminiscences. Albert Einstein 1879-1955 / C.P. Snow -- Excerpts from a memoir / Maurice Solovine -- Einstein's friendship with Michele Besso / P. Speziali -- My meeting with Einstein at the Solvay Conference of 1927 / Louis de Broglie -- Reminiscences of Einstein / L.L. Whyte -- Memoir / John A. Wheeler -- Anecdotes / Philipp Frank -- Memoir / Edward Teller -- Einstein / Philippe Halsman -- Reminiscence / George Gamow -- Memoir / Ernst G. Straus -- Memoir / Eugene P. Wigner -- An Einstein anecdote / John G. Kemeny -- Einstein, Newton, and success / A. Pais -- Conversations with Albert Einstein / Robert S. Shankland -- Einstein and Newton / I.B. Cohen -- A tribute / Pablo Casals -- On Albert Einstein / J.R. Oppenheimer -- Part II. Einstein and his work -- Einstein-a condensed biography -- Einstein and the birth of special relativity / Silvio Bergia -- The story of general relativity / A.P. French -- Relativity theory and gravitation / Hermann Bondi -- The problem / Eric M. Rogers -- The solution / I.B. Cohen -- Einstein and the development of quantum physics / Martin J. Klein -- Ẁhat, precisely, is "thinking"?' Einstein's answer / Gerald Holton --
Einstein, science and culture / Boris Kuznetsov -- Einstein and world affairs / A.P. French -- Einstein and Zionism / Gerald E. Tauber -- Einstein and the academic establishment / Martin J. Klein -- Einstein and education / Arturo Loria -- Philosophical concepts of space and time / Herbert Hörz -- Einstein on postage stamps / E.J. Burge -- Approaches to the teaching of special relativity / Geoffrey Dorling -- Part III. Einstein's Letters. Einstein writes to his best friend / P. Speziali -- Letter to Maurice Solovine, 7 May 1952 -- Exchange of letters with Niels Bohr -- Letters to Max Born -- Part IV Einstein's Writings -- On the electrodynamics of moving bodies -- Geometry and experience -- The cause of the formation of meanders in the courses of rivers and the so-called Baer's Law -- Excerpts from Ideas and opinions -- Notes on the origin of the general theory of relativity -- On the method of theoretical physics -- On education -- An elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy.

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.

Einstein's dissertation on the determination of molecular dimensions -- Einstein on Brownian motion -- Einstein on the theory of relativity -- Einstein's early work on the quantum hypothesis.

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