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SUMMARY: This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of papers laying out Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. In honor of the anniversary, Gwen Ifill examines how Einstein changed our understanding of the cosmos with Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): His work transformed our way of living at the cosmos.
When Einstein put forward his General Theory of Relativity, that gravity itself is the bending of space and time by mass and energy, it was a seminal moment in the history of science.
Today, the importance of his work is even better recognized than a century ago.
“NOVA” pays tribute tonight with a special program called “Inside Einstein’s Mind.”
Here’s a clip about how it’s seen today.
MAN: The best theories in physics always take to places where the people who invented them didn’t imagine.
And a truly wonderful theory like General Relativity predicts all sorts of things that Einstein didn’t conceive of. The theory has a life of its own. We understand General Relativity much better right now than Albert Einstein ever did.
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