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How Did Albert Einstein Impact The World

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Albert Einstein and his Effect on the World
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."(Collected Quotes) This is a quote from one of the most influential minds in science of the 20th Century. Albert Einstein was named "Person of the Century" by Time Magazine in 1999. (Mastin) Albert Einstein was so influential to the world that his name has become synonymous with genius. (Isaacson) He worked on many things in the field of physics that changed the way people think about the world as well as working on social issues of the time such as working with pacifist, anti-war organizations and helping Jews escape persecution during the Holocaust.
Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity made major contributions to the field of physics. The Theory of Special Relativity states that the speed of light is the same for all observers regardless at what speed that observer is moving. (Mastin) His Theory of Special Relativity comes mostly …show more content…

This theory supposes that gravity is a warpage in the fabric of space time. (Mastin) This theory is considered one of the pillars of modern physics. (Mastin) This theory replaces Newton's Law of Gravity which had been accepted previously as being correct. It proposes the existence of black holes, the bending of light and wormholes. (Mastin) The existence of black holes is important to the field of physics because it is speculated that all galaxies revolve around super massive black holes. A year after publishing his original paper he added the concept of the cosmological constant which works as an anti-gravity force. (Mastin) This force prevents the universe from collapsing on itself.(Mastin) At the time people just thought of it as a mathematical fix and Einstein considered it his "greatest blunder"(Mastin) Recent work in physics shows that this might be an answer to the problem of dark

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