On Einstein's Discoveries
New Books in Physics and Chemistry
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The Relationship Between Relativity and Post-Modernism
Einstein provided fertile ground for rebuilding and rethinking the old order. In Einstein's thought, there are two sides of the same coin. If you take a pencil and you look at it with a pointy side towards your eye, but safely away, you see it as a little circle or disc. And so in three dimensions, we see something constant. But when we project it into two dimensions or look at it in silhouette, We see all sorts of different things depending on our perspective.
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