Albert Einstein Why Is The Sky Blue Essay

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Drew Porter
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United States History
3 March 2014

Albert Einstein
Why is the sky blue? A good amount of people know the correct answer to this question: there are millions of particles in the sky, and the visible length of the electromagnetic spectrum is absorbed by these particles (Rosenberg). The only particles that come out are blue. Today, that information is readily available, however prior to about 1900, it was unanswered. Not only the question of the color of the sky was unanswered, but also many more questions about the then-uncommon topic of physics had not even been asked. What was the breakthrough? America was changed forever by the discoveries of the father of new physics, Albert Einstein. Before most people were intelligent enough to ask the toughest questions in physics, Einstein had already calculated, tested, and published the answers in his theories of General Relativity and Special Relativity. Einstein's theories were not just new things to put in a physics textbook; he actually developed very useful inventions and ideas for America. Albert Einstein changed, altered, or affected the history of the United States
Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. He moved to Switzerland to go to college at the Federal Polytechnic School to teach Physics and Math. Out of college, he tried a few times to get a job teaching, but he was denied! He went back to school to get his doctorate while working as a technical assistant at the Swiss Patent Office. In his spare time at work, he developed some of the equations that he later published. After recognizing his talent, Polytechnic offered him a job as a Physics teacher. Einstein traveled to a few different (where) pi...

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...sion sooner than the one in back. Who is right? Did the bolts strike at the same time, or did the bolt strike the front of the train first? Einstein argues that they are both right in his Theory of Simultaneity (Bergson). Another interesting concept made possible in the 4th-dimension in space is another theory of time travel. If scientists are able to figure out a way around the Equivalence of Mass and Energy problem of accelerating a particle at the speed of light, then time travel may be possible. Einstein developed a formula that corresponds time with distance and speed. In the 4th-dimension, if matter was able to reach the speed of light, Einstein concluded that it could in fact travel negative time (Hawking).
Albert Einstein's contributions to American advancement in physics and thinking in general. He was the instrumental figure in developing an atomic bomb.

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