The Albert Einstein 100 Year Anniversary:

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." --

Albert Einstein

Around town we always have something of interest going on. Last Friday, while I was at the library, I saw a flyer for a lecture on Einstein being held later on in the evening. I attended the lecture and was fascinated by the sheer abstract quality of his concepts. I mean, I knew his ideas were abstract but I didn't realize to what degree. The fact that time is altered by speed and gravity is intriguing. Doesn't it say in the Bible that 1,000 years is but a day to God? I wonder if heaven is so far out of any gravitational pull that this is realistically possible...Hmm...sets your brain to thinking:)

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The one thing that I hadn't known, and impressed me greatly, was the fact he conceived a majority of the earth shattering ideas for which he is now well known, during his teen years. Then he published his theories, (Five very thick works all in succession. One after the other every month) while working as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland. These works included E=Mc2 (the theory of relativity). He was only 26 at the time and didn't even have his degree. Later on he won the Nobel Prize for these ideas (but of course we all knew that:)The most amazing part? He never did any of his own experiments. He just reasoned conceptually and let others figure out why and how it worked.

E=Mc2

Fascinating. Basically it means we now know, that we never knew, what we thought we knew. And what was it we thought we knew? That time is consistent, uniform and unvaryingly measurable. So, from what I understand, if you have a clock, moving above the earth at a consistent rate of speed; gravity, (or the lack of it) causes time to slow down. The clock will lose minutes, while a clock on the earth(affected by a greater gravitational pull) stays constant.

(Yay! The principle of time travel may really be a viable option!!! *snicker* ...okay everybody put your tape recorders away...)

This phenomenon is unexplainable except for the theory of special relativity. GPS would be a wreck were it not for this lovely principle.

Hats off to Albert Einstein; an interesting case study.