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AlbertEinsteinsharedhisscientifictheoriesanddiscoveriesthroughnumerousbooksandpapers.Histheoryofrelativitymadeitsfirstappearancein1905butwasexpandeduponandexplainedinmanysubsequentwritings.ThemostimportantofEinstein'swritingsarelistedhere:
1905March17.Thelightquantumpaper:"Onaheuristicpointofviewconcerningtheproductionandtransformationoflight."Thispapergavebirthtoquantumtheory.
1905June30.Thespecialtheoryofrelativity:"Ontheelectrodynamicsofmovingbodies."Inthispaper,Einsteinstatedthatthelawsofphysicsarethesameforallobserversinnonacceleratedmotionandthat,fortheseobservers,thespeedoflightneverchanges.
1905September27.TheE=mc2paper:"Doesanobject'sinertiadependonitsenergycontent?"ThispaperexplainedEinstein'sdiscoverythatmassandenergyareaspectsofthesamethingmassandenergyareequivalent,andonecanbeconvertedintotheother.
1911June.Thebendingoflightprediction:"Ontheeffectofgravityonthepropagationoflight."Thisprediction(whichwasconfirmedin1919)wasbasedontheideathatlargeobjects,likethesun,warpspace.
1915November15."Onthegeneraltheoryofrelativity."ThispaperextendedEinstein'sspecialtheoryofrelativitytoincludealltypesofmotion.IttookEinsteinfouryearstodevelopthegeneraltheory.
1915March20.Einstein'sfirstbook,TheFoundationoftheGeneralTheoryofRelativity.Thisbookprovidedthefirstcompletedescriptionofhisgeneraltheoryofrelativity.
1916December.Einstein'sbestknownbook,Relativity:TheSpecialandGeneralTheory.Thisbook,whichhasbeenreprintedcontinuouslyineverymajorlanguageintheworld,containsanaccessibledescriptionofthetwotheoriesofrelativity.Itusessimplehighschoolmathematicstoexplainthetheories.
1917Thecosmologicalconstant:"Cosmologicalobservationsonthegeneraltheoryofrelativity."Inthispaper,Einsteinintroducedacorrectiontermtopreventhisequationsfromdescribinganexpandinguniverse.Althoughhefailedtopredicttheexpansionoftheuniverse(whichwasdiscoveredlater),hiscosmologicalconstantisnowhelpingtoexplainobservationsabouttheshapeofspaceandtherateofexpansionoftheuniverse.
1935April.Thequantumrealityproblem:"Canthequantummechanicaldescriptionbeconsideredcomplete?"Einsteinwasn'tconvincedthatquantumtheorydescribedreality.Mostphysicistsdisagreedwithhimonthisissue.Inthispaper,heproposedacleverexperimenttosettletheargument.Thisexperimentwasfinallyperformedinthe1980s,andtheresultsindicatethatEinsteinmayhavebeenwronginthiscase.
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