Albert Einstein and His Words on the Concept of Relativity
Gaurav Tiwari
Albert Einstein
This name need not be explained. Albert Einstein is considered to be one of the best minds in human history.
The twentieth century had undoubtedly been the most significant for the advance of science, in general, and Physics, in particular. And Einstein was the most illuminated star of the 20th century.
He literally created an upheaval in quick succession, in the year 1905, by the publication of two epoch-making papers, on the concept of the photon and on the Electrodynamics of moving bodies respectively, with yet another on the Mathematical analysis of Brownian Motion thrown in, in between.
The Electrodynamics of moving bodies was the biggest sensation and it demolished at one stroke some of the most cherished and supposedly infallible laws and concepts and gave the breathtaking new idea of the relativity of space and time.
Truly it may be said that just as the enunciation of Newton’s laws of motion heralded emancipation from the age-old Ar…
