Theoretical Physics

Einstein

The Mapper of Spacetime · Modern Physics, 1879-1955

Einstein reshapes space, time, gravity, geometry, and the conceptual language of modern physics.

Relativity
Space-time
Geometry
Light
Physical theory

Life

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist whose work transformed modern physics. Nexus stages him through the popular Relativity, the shorter Sidelights addresses, and the harder Princeton lectures in The Meaning of Relativity.

The question

“What changes when space and time are not absolute backgrounds?”

Argued against

Naive absolutes of space, time, and ether inherited from older physical pictures.

Why Einstein matters

Einstein changed physics and public imagination alike, making modern science a challenge to common sense as well as a technical revolution.