But in 1905, Einstein, a young cleark at the Swiss patent office, published several ideas that led to a total rethinking of physics and shook the foundation of science. The publication that had ...

The result of Einstein's thinking about light, this theory introduced brand-new ideas to science. It opened up an entire field of physics, but left Einstein with some nagging questions.

Einstein's ideas were trapped by the blockades of the Great War, and even more by the vicious nationalism that made "enemy" science unwelcome in the UK. But Einstein, a socialist, and Eddington ...