Einstein – Cantor's Archive

Relativity

Deriving Einstein’s Gravity Equations From Thermodynamics

Is Gravity Just an Average of the Behavior of Unknown “Atoms” of Spacetime?

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.