Content tagged "Albert Einstein"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Sue Ding
Podcast: Tom Levenson, “Einstein, Mercury, And The Hunt For Vulcan”
MIT professor of science writing Tom Levenson discusses his new book, “The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe”.
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Event: Thursday, November 5, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
Einstein, Mercury, and the Hunt for Vulcan
In this talk, Tom Levenson asks why it took more than 50 years — until Einstein’s general theory of relativity — for science to change its mind about the existence of an unseen planet.
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Posted by Marcia Bartusiak
The Day We Found the Universe
Marcia Bartusiak’s “riveting and mesmerizing story behind the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.”
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Posted by Thomas Levenson
Einstein in Berlin
“Take a good look,” he said to his wife as they walked away from their house. “You will never see it again.”
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Posted by Alan Lightman
Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman’s “modern classic”, a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905.