Einstein's Universe For The Lay Person: How Einstein Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798717480048
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-03-06
- Author
- Madeleine Santos
Description
Previously published as "Einstein's Physics For The Lay Person" by Madeleine Santos. *** On December 31, 1999, the very last day of perhaps the greatest century in history, Time magazine named Albert Einstein the "Person of the Century" for the 20th century. Considering the many great political and military leaders in the 20th century who had tremendous impacts in saving the world from destruction by two World Wars and the many great philosophers, inventors, economists and entrepreneurs who had such profound impacts on people's prosperity and well-being, why should a humble physicist be chosen as "Person of the Century"? Sure, Einstein was a genius who was considered by many as "the smartest person who ever lived" but what had he done to beat out all those great leaders who not only saved millions of lives but may have saved civilization itself. What had he done to beat out those great men and women who made huge contributions to improve people's lives? This book will show you that Einstein deserved that honor. Along the way, as you learn about Einstein's accomplishments, you will be introduced to the fascinating world of modern physics where you will learn about his special and general relativity theories, cosmology with emphasis on the Big Bang theory, quantum theory and particle physics. These subject matters are explained in simple terms using analogies that a lay person can easily understand. You will go through an exhilarating reading adventure as you learn about the space-time continuum, the slowing down of time, the warping of space, gravitational time dilation, the gravitational bending of light, the expanding universe, the "echo of creation", black holes, dark matter, dark energy, energy quantum, photons, entanglement, Schrodinger's Cat, quarks, antimatter, the Higgs field, the "God particle", the inflationary model of the universe and many more. Along the way, you will meet other geniuses whose scientific accomplishments were directly or indirectly profoundly influenced by Einstein. The collective vision of Einstein and the generations of geniuses that he inspired with his brilliant theories and equations forms what can be legitimately called "Einstein's Universe". This collective vision of our physical world led to technological innovations that launched many of world's current industries. It is estimated that one of Einstein's revolutionary papers (and he had several of them) launched a branch of modern physics that accounts for about one third of the current US economy. That alone would make him worthy of the "Person of the Century" honor. But there are a lot more and this book will tell you all about them ...
