Einstein’s Miracle Year: When the World Met A Genius
In 1905, Albert Einstein wrote four papers that changed the world forever. And that was only the beginning
Einstein was 26 years old when he changed the world.
Before that, he used to daydream from as young as 16 about questions like: What would happen if you raced alongside a light beam?
So, I guess he was always destined to think bigger than most.
10 years later, in 1905, he then shared something no one else had heard or even thought about before. That was “that the speed of light remains the same no matter how fast one moves.”
This violated Newton’s laws of motion, however, which brought its own sensitivities and challenges. However, it did lead Einstein to formulate the principle of relativity so it wasn’t all bad in the end.
1905 has been aptly named Einstein’s “miracle year” because he published four papers in the Annalen der Physik (Annuals of Physics), each of which altered the course of modern physics forever.
Here are those four papers:
