2007-01-09 12:12:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Einstein wrote significant papers in the fields of Brownian motion, special and general relativity, and was involved in the Manhattan project which created the atomic bomb.
Oddly enough, Einstein also played a significant role in the development of quantum mechanics, though later in life he refused to accept its implications and is famous for his anti-quantum mechanics quotation, "God doesn't play dice."
Einstein dabbled in some cosmology and worked on the static state model of the universe. He said later in life that the "fudge factor" he introduced into the steady state model was one of his greatest failures.
2007-01-09 14:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by woocowgomu 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What what he said about time is pretty amazing...imagine, if you will, Einstein in a car travelling at, lets say the speed of light. Ok so it may not be Einstein maybe Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are sitting in the back seat whispering sweet nothings, yeah but hears the thing although your standing on the pavement(sidewalk?) eating a hotdog,smoking a cigar, lamenting a proud monkey or whatever you are able to see BP and JA getting intimate and instead of wondering how and why BP and JA are back together your wondering why are they moving so very very very slowly. Well that's cause Mr E invented the theory of relativatly so even time is relative, crazy huh?!? apparently this was proved with some kind of photon or something.
2007-01-09 12:39:14 · answer #2 · answered by tomtom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. Einstein's theories lead to the invention of nuclear power and the atomic bomb.
2007-01-09 12:23:05 · answer #3 · answered by Ducky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not "invent" anything. He only theorised. The proof of his theories was left to others. "Inventing" is creating something which was not previously in existance. Einstein simply tried to explain what is already all around us.
2007-01-09 12:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by Mez 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't invent anything. He discovered quantization of matter, for which he received the Nobel prize. He is better known for his work involving coordinate transformations, or "relativity", including his special and general theorys of relativity. He was the first to try to unify the major forces into a "unified theory" at which he, and many others after him, failed to do.
2007-01-09 13:40:54 · answer #5 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In addition to the theories of relativity (general and special), and the photoelectric effect, which showed that light comes in little packets of energy called quanta, these theories also led to the INVENTION of the refridgerator without any moving parts.
2007-01-09 12:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by OobyDooby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what Mez said, is correct. though eistein did have a part in developing the atomic bomb, it was only a part.
many of einsteins therories, have yet to be proven or disproven. the therory of relativity itself is still a long ways from being proven completely. some parts of it, like the time to distance from the earth part, were proven only very recently.
2007-01-09 12:27:24 · answer #7 · answered by tootall1121 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he did not invent anything ,he pointed out some home truth and explained how the world was put together
the Atom bomb may have been his contribution to society
2007-01-09 12:20:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. He discovered some very important laws governing the Universe.
2007-01-09 12:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by ramshi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The theory of special relativity.
2007-01-09 12:16:46 · answer #10 · answered by The Answerer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋