100 Year Anniversary of Einstein's Theory of Relativity

 

It is difficult to imagine that 100 years ago today, November 25, 1915, Albert Einstein went on stage at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and declared he had concluded his pursuit, taking decades, into what he called a new and deeper understanding of gravity. He said a few days later that he was exhausted but the success was glorious.

The general theory of relativity was now complete. Einstein's special theory of relativity had been completed 10 years earlier in 1905.

Einstein had shown that time and space were not separate entities, and he now showed that gravity was included. In ways that most people do not understand, Einstein completely changed the world with a new understanding of physics, one that has been proven since by experimentation. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.