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Einstein'sMostImportantWritings
ByCarlosI.Calle

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AlbertEinsteinsharedhisscientifictheoriesanddiscoveriesthroughnumerousbooksandpapers.Histheoryofrelativitymadeits
firstappearancein1905butwasexpandeduponandexplainedinmanysubsequentwritings.ThemostimportantofEinstein's
writingsarelistedhere:
1905March17.Thelightquantumpaper:"Onaheuristicpointofviewconcerningtheproductionandtransformationoflight."
Thispapergavebirthtoquantumtheory.
1905June30.Thespecialtheoryofrelativity:"Ontheelectrodynamicsofmovingbodies."Inthispaper,Einsteinstatedthat
thelawsofphysicsarethesameforallobserversinnonacceleratedmotionandthat,fortheseobservers,thespeedoflight
neverchanges.
1905September27.TheE=mc2paper:"Doesanobject'sinertiadependonitsenergycontent?"Thispaperexplained
Einstein'sdiscoverythatmassandenergyareaspectsofthesamethingmassandenergyareequivalent,andonecanbe
convertedintotheother.
1911June.Thebendingoflightprediction:"Ontheeffectofgravityonthepropagationoflight."Thisprediction(whichwas
confirmedin1919)wasbasedontheideathatlargeobjects,likethesun,warpspace.
1915November15."Onthegeneraltheoryofrelativity."ThispaperextendedEinstein'sspecialtheoryofrelativitytoincludeall
typesofmotion.IttookEinsteinfouryearstodevelopthegeneraltheory.
1915March20.Einstein'sfirstbook,TheFoundationoftheGeneralTheoryofRelativity.Thisbookprovidedthefirstcomplete
descriptionofhisgeneraltheoryofrelativity.
1916December.Einstein'sbestknownbook,Relativity:TheSpecialandGeneralTheory.Thisbook,whichhasbeenreprinted
continuouslyineverymajorlanguageintheworld,containsanaccessibledescriptionofthetwotheoriesofrelativity.Ituses
simplehighschoolmathematicstoexplainthetheories.
1917Thecosmologicalconstant:"Cosmologicalobservationsonthegeneraltheoryofrelativity."Inthispaper,Einstein
introducedacorrectiontermtopreventhisequationsfromdescribinganexpandinguniverse.Althoughhefailedtopredictthe
expansionoftheuniverse(whichwasdiscoveredlater),hiscosmologicalconstantisnowhelpingtoexplainobservations
abouttheshapeofspaceandtherateofexpansionoftheuniverse.
1935April.Thequantumrealityproblem:"Canthequantummechanicaldescriptionbeconsideredcomplete?"Einsteinwasn't
convincedthatquantumtheorydescribedreality.Mostphysicistsdisagreedwithhimonthisissue.Inthispaper,heproposeda
cleverexperimenttosettletheargument.Thisexperimentwasfinallyperformedinthe1980s,andtheresultsindicatethat
Einsteinmayhavebeenwronginthiscase.

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