One of Einstein's most defining qualities was his remarkable ability to conceptualize complex scientific ideas by imagining real-life scenarios. He called these scenarios Gedankenexperiments ...

These ideas would later play a critical role in Einstein's thinking about energy, mass, light, and motion. A prodigy in mathematics and physics, Newton began many revolutionary advances about ...

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There are other ways, however, to put his ideas to the test. How do we know Einstein had it right? One experiment in the 1970s provided some pretty strong evidence: Atomic clocks are extremely ...