Three were the papers that Einstein published on Relativity Theory (
«On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies»), Suspended Particles (
«On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid, as Required by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat») and Photoelectric Effect (
«On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light»). In one last paper he added that in order to clarify that energy and mass HAD to be connected or everything he had said wouldn’t make sense, and he scribbled the E=MC2 famous equation (
«Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?»).
3 + 1 papers published in less than a year that changed physics history. After going through them all, I not going to pretend that I understood everything because I missed some points, but I am going to argue that every science student should compulsory read them. Engineers, Mathematicians, Physics and everyone brave enough to survive some formulas has so much to learn from them.
Einstein always starts expressing his irritability facing theories that didn’t match. He believed in a unique explanation for a same phenomenon, no matter the perspective: a theory of everything (as the name of the Steven Hopkins movie that I mentioned I couple of entries ago says).
Through Einstein’s papers you mostly see mentions to other great scientist of the time. At the first look it might seem that he is synthetizing them, but actually he goes further and beyond. He takes what works in the theories, finds the mistakes and fixes them. It doesn’t matter if in order to do that he has to bomb the most popular beliefs, or to go to the roots of space and time. Einstein used tones of critical analysis and philosophical thoughts, and just a few new equations. He was more into the simplifying mood, but the only equation he ‘invented’ changed the world.
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