He called these scenarios Gedankenexperiments, which is German for thought experiments. Despite the name, Einstein's mental exercises incorporated data from actual experiments. Here are a few ...

Einstein thought in images, such as one that began haunting him as a teenager: If a man could keep pace with a beam of light, what would he see? Would he see the electromagnetic wave frozen in ...

Though nearly 2,500 years apart, Einstein and Aristotle had the same thought: “The more you know, the more you know you don’t ...

Einstein thought in images, such as one that began haunting him as a teenager: If a man could keep pace with a beam of light, what would he see? Would he see the electromagnetic wave frozen in ...

Einstein was a true genius and it’s the example ... His favorite way to operate as a scientist was the thought experiment. And he describes for instance, the crucial moment, where he essentially ...

Here, he’s introduced as “psychologically tender” and quoted as declaring that Albert Einstein (impersonated in the movie by Tom Conti) had “no understanding of or interest in modern ...

Even though the clock on his wrist ticks at a normal rate? These thoughts would eventually lead Albert Einstein, at just 26 years of age, to the ground breaking realization that all physical law ...

Few people have spent as much time immersed in the non-scientific side of Albert Einstein’s thinking as Benyamin Cohen. Einstein was, to put it extremely mildly, a pretty smart guy.

This thought experiment showed that time moves differently for someone moving than for someone standing still, cementing Einstein's belief that time and space are relative and simultaneity doesn't ...