More than 10 years after its inception, the online archive of Albert Einstein’s life and work relaunched this week with tons of new content — including more than 2000 high-resolution documents. Nerds, have at it!
The Special Theory of Relativity. It’s the most famous thing the most famous physicist ever did, but what makes it so special? Turns out, it helped prove that we could, uh, move. Seriously. Here’s the latest in MinutePhysics’ crusade to educate the stupid, stupid world about Einstein.
Did you know that Einstein was born on Pi Day? The man’s awesomeness is immeasurable. Anyway, it’s Albert’s birthday, and Minute Physics is continuing its mission to educate we the idiots of the world about what Einstein actually did. Here, he’s calculating the size of atoms just by observing water and air.
When someone says Einstein, you think “E=mc2″, relativity and funny haircuts. But most of us don’t have a clue about the specific scientific contributions he made. That ain’t right. So here’s Minute Physics breaking down one of the scientific breakthroughs that turned the German patent clerk into a Nobel Prize winner.
We tend to think of Albert Einstein has a highfalutin theoretical physics guru, but the physicist also worked on much more everyday tasks…like developing an energy-efficient refrigerator. Allow Jennifer Ouellette from Cocktail Party Physics to explain.
Fifty-five years after Albert Einstein’s death, physicists will be testing something he scribed in his theory of general relativity report. Three spacecraft flying 4.8 million kilometres apart will fire lasers at each other, overseen by Nasa and the European Space Agency.
