Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein

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v is the frequency of the radiation. This proposal, that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta,
contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a
manifestation of continuous processes.
My third and most impotant paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies", contained what has become known as the special theory of relativity.
Since the time of Sir Issac Newton, scientists had been trying to understand
the nature of matter and radiation, and how they interacted in some unified
world picture. The position that mechanical laws are fundamental has become
known as the mechanical world view, and the position that electrical laws are
fundamental has become known as the electromagnetic world view. Neither
approach, however, is capable of providing a consistent explanation for the way
radiation and matter interact when viewed from different inertial frames of
reference, that is, an interaction viewed simultaneously ...

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