49 6 . Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - I explained that the speed of light remains constant throughout the universe. Only mass, distant and time are relative to their observers. I also proved , using my famous equation E = mc , that a very small particle of matter contains an enormous amount of energy. Creation Day One: "Let there be light!"
A young Albert Einstein working at the Bern Federal Office for Intellectual Property in 1904. All physicists in 1905 thought they knew what light was. Whether from the S un or an incandescent light bulb, scientists knew that light was a series of electromagnetic waves ( photons ) that originated from a source and spread out evenly and continuously throughout space, traveling at a fixed constant rate of 186,000 miles per second known as the speed of light.
Li ving at the time in Bern, Switzerland was a young 24-year old patent clerk named Albert Einstein . Einstein had just published a series of five scientific papers that would soon transform the way we viewed the universe. The first of his papers described his revolutionary theory on the nature of light and his famous equation explaining the relationship between all matter and energy in the universe , E=mc² .
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