EINSTEIN'S STORM

From: Minnesota Monthly | Date: August 1, 2005| Author: Rayl, A J S | Copyright information

A.J.S. RAYL

It all started with an imaginary light beam. If he could catch up with a beam of light speeding through the universe, would it be frozen in place as he sped alongside it, or would he see nothing?

From the time he was a teenager, Albert Einstein wondered about that light beam, and all kinds of other things about the way the world works. For 10 years he pondered and calculated and contemplated anew the possibilities, until finally ideas rushed forth in an unparalleled ...

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