Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum
Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old. minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bi...
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In 1905, Albert Einstein published a series of papers that many consider a starting pointfor the modern age of physics. But other than "E equals m c squared", most people only knowthat Einstein was famous, not for what he was famous. Since this week marks the 133rdanniversary of his birth, as is customary in western traditions we will celebrate bytaking a brief tour of his scientific publications.Today, his paper from March, 1905 on why light is a particle.Einstein didn't just pull this idea out of thin air – he first noted that the lightemitted from something hot (like a lightbulb filament), actually has the same energy distributionas a gas, which is somewhat surprising if you're a nineteenth century physicist whothinks that li...
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In 1905, Albert Einstein published a series of papers that many consider a starting pointfor the modern age of physics. But other than "E equals m c squared", most people only knowthat Einstein was famous, not for what he was famous. Since this week marks the 133rdanniversary of his birth, as is customary in western traditions we will celebrate bytaking a brief tour of his scientific publications.Today, his paper from March, 1905 on why light is a particle.Einstein didn't just pull this idea out of thin air – he first noted that the lightemitted from something hot (like a lightbulb filament), actually has the same energy distributionas a gas, which is somewhat surprising if you're a nineteenth century physicist whothinks that li...
