Mileva Maric was a physics student at Zurich Polytechnic, and when she and Einstein met they fell madly in love.

This is a great piece of writing and of research about Einstein’s relationship with his first wife who served as his sounding-board in the miracle year of 1905 when he discovers special relativity and lays the groundwork for quantum theory. Let’s talk about Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by Dennis Overbye. The fabric of the cosmos is there even in an empty universe. He wrestles with the question Newton asked about whether a bucket of water spinning in an absolutely empty universe would show any signs of inerti would the water spin up against the sides? From that he is able to walk us through the great issues of gravity and space.Įinstein and Greene think it would, yes. “He had a religious-like reverence for the concept of a creator, even though he did not believe in a personal God” This is the clearest explanation of Newton and Einstein available, and Greene does it with a great sense of humour and wonderful visual thought experiments. He starts with Newton’s theory of gravity and helps us understand all the developments that led to Einstein’s theory that space and time create a four-dimensional fabric that is related to gravity. In The Fabric of the Cosmos he takes Einstein’s fundamental discoveries of special relativity and general relativity and puts them in their historical context. Your next book is Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos.īrian Greene is one of the developers of string theory, the pioneer of string theory, and what he’s doing is he’s aiming at Einstein’s great unresolved quest for a theory that ties all the forces of the universe together.

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Einstein by walter isaacson