PRIDE CHEKERA_HOW BEAUTY IS PHYSICS_SHORT ESSAY (2021 EBOOK)

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Part 4:


Einstein's Physics


"I am convinced that we can
discover by means of purely mathematical constructions the concepts
and the laws connecting them with each other, which furnish the key
to the understanding of natural phenomena.... In a certain sense,
therefore, l hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the
ancients dreamed." Albert Einstein.


The quest of unitary description of the cosmos


The goal of physics since 2000 years ago was to find a unified
description of the universe, a simple explanation of the existence
of everything from a microcosm to a macrocosm. Traversing
back in time to 2000 years ago, this was a quest of the ancient
Greeks, as great thinkers of the time, philosophers searched for
this unitary description behind all in existence. Democritus is
one of these giants, who seek for our place with this vastness of
bizarre. He imagined space-time as a "being", which only had a
meaning when accommodates some objects. Although at this
epoch no one had knowledge of what actually was " space-

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