Book Review: The dark horse who found light
28 July 2015 - 02:00
IN 1905, a scientific nobody had what he would later call his "happiest thought". If a person fell off a ladder, he would not feel his weight during his fall. Einstein: his Space and Times by Steven Gimbel published by Yale University Press R362 from www.exclusives.co.zaThis led Albert Einstein to the idea that gravity and acceleration were merely different ways of looking at the same thing.
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