Einstein’s Cosmos
How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
“Kaku enables the reader to see and think as Einstein did.” —Popular Science
Masterfully reconstructing the life and work of the twentieth century’s greatest scientist, Michio Kaku invites us into Einstein’s mind where great ideas came to him in the form of pictures. Picturing what a light beam would look like if one were to race alongside it led to the theory of special relativity and E=mc2, the famous equation that has unlocked the secret of the stars. From a second image, in which Einstein imagined himself falling off his chair in the Bern patent office, came general relativity, which shaped our understanding of black holes, curved space-time, and the Big Bang. To Einstein’s dismay, no third image crystallized to create a theory unifying all of the laws of nature—but even the supposed “minor” achievements of his later career have created new areas of scientific investigation, new technologies, and several Nobel Prizes.
“Authoritative” —New Scientist
“Michio Kaku makes Einstein’s genius seem akin to a poet’s sensibility.” —Washington Post