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Originally Posted by lyn1
Theory of relativity where (in laymans terms) is if you travel at the speed of light, time stays still.
According to Einstein (and he was famous for coming up with theories like this that no one could disprove) is if you travelled from earth to some other planet at the speed of light, even if it took 10 years, you would be no older.
This has confused the 'illogical set' no-end for years, but if you looked at it logically, it is bullshit. Time can be measured from the time you are born. If you all of a sudden jump on a spacecraft, travel to another planet that took 2 years, you are still older in relationship to when you were born.
Einstein also worked on the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Japan. He was only a bit player in the team. I remember reading about Einstein being asked if it was feasible in approx. 1938. He said it was impossible and couldn't happen. He was sadly lacking in this regard. I'm from german heritage, but have no time for his theories.
Lyn from Oz
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Einstein never worked on the atomic bomb and was a pacifist at heart, On August 2nd 1939 after a meeting that Einstein had with Physicist leo Szilard, Einstein on Szilards response signed a letter that was addressed to Roosevelt. The
full excerpt of the letter you can find here
http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html. several months later after war broke when Germany invaded poland, Einstein signed a second letter
that was sent to the president and the "manhattan project" was born
Einstein had postulated several theories in 1905 namely special and general relativity. Special relativity states Special relativity considers that observers in inertial reference frames, which are in uniform motion relative to one another, cannot perform any experiment to determine which one of them is "stationary". This is known as the principle of relativity.
Einsteins theory of relativity was proved in the 60's with the use of Atomic clocks.