Relativity
Deriving Einstein’s Gravity Equations From Thermodynamics
Is Gravity Just an Average of the Behavior of Unknown “Atoms” of Spacetime?
Einstein
Gödel
Gödel’s Constitutional Quarrel
“The examiner was intelligent enough to quickly quieten Gödel and say ‘Oh god, let’s not go into this’ and broke off the examination at this point, greatly to our relief” — Oskar Morgenstern Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) was the greatest logician who ever lived. At the age of 24, he
Relativity
Why Time Is Encoded in the Geometry of Space
An Introduction to Geometrodynamics
Relativity
A Gentle Explanation of E= mc²
Deriving Einstein’s Famous Mass-Energy Equivalence Formula
Einstein
Length Contraction in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Why Moving Objects are Shortened
Gödel
Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness
Hungarian polymath John von Neumann (1903–1957) once wrote that Kurt Gödel was “absolutely irreplaceable” and “in a class by himself”.
Physics
The Einstein-Szilárd Letter (1939)
The now famous Einstein-Szilárd letter was written at the initiative of Hungarian nuclear physicist Leó Szilárd with help from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner in 1939.
Relativity
Thinking Relativistically
Problem-solving in special relativity.
Physics
When Wiener met Einstein (1925)
Mathematician and later father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) crossed paths with many great minds in his life, from Bertrand Russell and G.H. Hardy, to Max Born, John F. Nash Jr. and John von Neumann.
Physics
Extending Einstein’s Field Equations
Wave Properties of Matter in Gravitational Fields
History
The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)
The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons held in 1927 in Brussels, Belgium.
Physics
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Explained as simply as possible, but no simpler.