Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time (Great Discoveries)

"A fresh and highly visual tour through Einstein's astonishing legacy." —Brian Greene There's no better short book that explains just what Einstein did than Einstein's Cosmos. Keying Einstein's crucial discoveries to the simple mental images that inspired them, Michio Kaku finds a revealing new way to discuss his ideas, and delivers an appealing and always accessible introduction to Einstein's work. A leading string theory physicist demonstrates how Albert Einstein used simple, picture-based imagery to convey his theories about relativity and subsequently changed the way people thought about the world, in a volume that evaluates the beauty and lasting impact of Einstein's cosmos Physics before Einstein -- Early years -- Special relativity and "The Miracle Year" -- General relativity and "The Happiest Thought in My Life" -- New copernicus -- Big bang and black holes -- Unification and the quantum challenge -- War, peace, and -- Einstein's prophetic legacy. A journalist once asked Albert Einstein, the greatest scientific genius since Isaac Newton, to explain his formula for success. Michio Kaku. Includes Bibliographical Notes And Bibliography (p. 235-251).