• Question: scientist what can you tell about Albert Einstein ?

    Asked by super Au to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa on 19 Nov 2014.
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      Kate Dobson answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      There’s a lot of information on Einstein on most search engines and wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein. If you want to know more about his theories in an easy way try reading
      “Time and space and Uncle Albert” and “Black holes and uncle albert” two great books by Russell Stannard. I read them when I was about 14 and then found them on my university reading list!

      He was exceptionally clever and able to make links no one else did, so I wonder what he would discover if he was your age now?

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      Lisa Simmons answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      He was a genius who could see the world in a different way to others. He battled with the theories of quantum mechanics later on in his career, but what he achieved shapes the world of modern physics.

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      Joshaniel Cooper answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      He was quite exceptional and insanely clever. His theory of general relativity (gravity) is still not really understood today (100 years later). It was actually so complicated that he wasn’t good enough at maths to be able to describe it at first and had to ask some friends to help him.
      His theory of special relativity was good, but there were many people who were working on it at the time and it probably would have been discovered without him within 10 years, alot of physicists think that his theory of gravity might still not have been thought of by now though (we need this for accurate GPS so the world would have been a very different place).
      Interestingly, he got his Nobel prize for work that the fewest people know about, Brownian motion and E=mc^2 didn’t really come into his “great” achievements at all!

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