Reply #308: Einstein -- In a Nutshell

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Everything you wanted to know about his revolutionary theories but were afraid to ask.

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Relativity and quantum mechanics rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century science, constituting the sum of all fundamental physical knowledge. The former describes the world of the very large, including black holes and the expanding universe. The latter explains the world of the very small, the microscopic realm of atoms and subatomic particles. One man—Albert Einstein—was the undisputed father of the first theory and the godfather of the second.

http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-04/features/einstein-in-a-nutshell/