He Worked As a Clerk And Other Facts You Didn't Know About Einstein
Imagine being so smart that your brain. is kept in a museum for decades after You're gone. Yeah, it doesn't happen to all the super smart people out there but We're talking about Albert Einstein here.
One of the greatest minds of all time Let's start from the very beginning. See that town right there between Stuttgart And Munich it's a city called ULM. Einstein's Hometown he was born in the The Year 1879 was the same year when Thomas Edison tried his first practical electric light bulb and the year when Three other Nobel Prize winners were Born, you know what they say?
There must have been something in that water that a Year that created Geniuses worldwide But that wasn't always the case for Einstein, I mean, wasn't always. considered a genius, actually his parents worried about his learning abilities When he was young until the age of five Einstein couldn't construct fully.
Sentences it took him a while before he started speaking coherently; however he was always a child fascinated with the world and the details of how things worked It was also at the age of five that.
Something big happened to him one day. His father gave him a compass to play with. It was the first time the kid was ever. Saw an object like that, and he got Extremely interested in it, he was especially struck at how the needle would always point to the Earth's magnetic north later in his Autobiography Einstein writes that his Fascination with the compass made him.
Wonder if there might be invisible Forces at play in the world he recalls It is an especially important moment. in his choice of career later in the future By the age of 15, Einstein had already. mastered differential and integral Calculus, in case you're like me and have No idea what that means.
Let's just say It has something to do with the calculation of lengths, areas volumes and speeds at that time, the teenage boy began to show his genius in some areas of knowledge but would struggle with other In areas such as language studies, he wasn't all that fond of school and was often depicted as having a strong and not so easy going personality, one teacher tired of Einstein's Tantrums even said that The kid would never amount to anything.
Boy, was he wrong, huh anyway, his inability to completely fit in in school Made Einstein drop out at the age of 15. His next steps were in Switzerland where He applied to the prestigious Swiss. Federal Institute of Technology, he tried. To get in two different times.
First he Failed his admission exam, but he did well in the math and physics section of the entrance exam but is said to have done horribly in language zoology and botany Another problem was that the exam was in French, he continued his high school.
Studies and it was his staggering school. Grades that got him into the Institute After all, he enrolled in a four-year teaching program in math and physics These years proved to be formative in Einstein's career and genius that's Where he met his future wife maleva marich, the only female student in his In physics class, by 1900.
Einstein had graduated and earned his diploma in both subjects It was Einstein that said if you can't Explain it simply. You don't understand it well enough to him the ability to explain Complicated subjects in a simple way were The basis of teaching.
That's why he tried to become a teacher early on in His career after graduating, he applied. to several academic positions to teach math and physics, but eventually he wasn't hired later on after two years of Searching.
He settled for a job at the Swiss patent office in Barron at first Einstein wasn't really happy with the An Offer he got, even so, he would spend the next seven years of his life in this position It turned out that this job was a gift.
In Disguise, he would spend his mornings. and afternoons investigating patent applications and judging whether or not They were actual inventions but in the In the evenings, he had time to think. The job wasn't too intellectual.
Demanding, and this allowed Einstein to Dedicate his free time to what he loved Researching physics and that's when Things started to change for the world's most famous genius one evening in the spring of 1905 Einstein had just finished his shift at At the patent office, he clocked out and grabbed the tram car home on that tram Something happened that entirely changed.
The way he saw the functioning of the The Universe around him was staring out. the trans window absent-mindedly staring at the clock tower in Barron City Center As the tram moved, he imagined what What would happen if the tram car were moving At the speed of light, he realized that.
If he were to travel at 186 000 miles per second the clock's hands would Appear to completely freeze at the same Time Einstein knew that at the clock. Tower, the clock's hands, would be moving. at their normal Pace but from the the perspective of the person traveling at The speed of light time would have slowed down almost to a complete stop This thought left Einstein completely.
Mesmerized, he understood that the faster. You move through space, the slower you. Move through time, this first clue LED. Einstein believed that time could be relative in other words, it would always Depending on the experience of the Observer 1905 was Einstein's year of Miracles That year he published four papers.
It would later be published and altered the Way Humanity understands the Universe. Among the 1905 papers he published was The theory that would make him a world famous, AKA Einstein's special theory of Relativity, and it all started on that.
Tran car ride home, oh, and I'm guessing. You might have learned about the famous. Formula from this Einstein paper in School E equals m c squared which Basically means that energy equals mass. Times the speed of light squared in case You're feeling somewhat challenged and Grasping what all these means, don't sweat Einstein himself said I do not worry.
about your difficulties in mathematics I Can assure you mine are still greater We'll just have to go along with him on this one won't we In 1921 Einstein was awarded a Nobel. Prize for his theory of light but not His theory of relativity is part of the Scientific Community still wasn't convinced of Einstein's relativity Theory since it didn't factor in the Laws of gravity truly this was something. That also bothered Einstein a lot which Meant he never stopped reflecting upon His discoveries were always searching.
For the ways in which he could improve them Now, remember Sir Isaac Newton, the man. Who sat beneath an apple tree and Discovered gravity after an apple fell on his head well, according to Newton Gravity is a constant force acting upon all objects on our planet and in our universe It took Einstein another 10 years to Complete his theory of relativity takes into consideration.
Newton's discoveries Einstein's new general theory of Relativity managed to explain how Gravity actually worked, for example, how Is it that the Sun's gravity actually pulls the Earth into its orbit well according to Einstein, something heavy Such as the Sun creating a dent in space other objects with smaller masses, such As the Earth is impacted by that dent And roll around the Sun like a marble.
constantly rolling or orbiting in a bowl He ended up not winning another Nobel. Prize for that Discovery, but it sure did. Revolutionize the world of physics again In the 1930s, Einstein moved to the U.S. and accepted a position to teach at Princeton, he spent the rest of his years.
Teaching at the newly created Institute for advanced studies in New Jersey Although Einstein says he never felt at Home in any country he is said to have loved the U.S very much and chose to Remain there for the rest of his years That's it for today, so hey, if you Pacified your curiosity.
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