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Article: Who knew? Try Einstein. Almost 100 years since his theories blew away Newtonian physics, he's still shaking up the scientific world.(FEATURES)(IDEAS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 14, 2002
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Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
At the dawn of the 20th century, a curly-haired, 26-year-old Swiss physicist with nothing but pen, paper, and a big imagination shook up the world. In the 21st century, it's still shaking.
In 1905, Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis ("miraculous year"), he published three of the four major papers that would lead him to be characterized, arguably, as the greatest scientific mind ever.
Blown away would be big patches of Newtonian physics, with its seemingly undeniable truths that were as apparent as, well, an apple bopping you on the head. Einstein's logic was provable, too, as ...