https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/einstein/ Recent content in Einstein on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Fri, 02 Mar 2018 06:01:52 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/geologic-column-pie-pi-day-and-einsteins-lesser-known-legacy/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 06:01:52 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/geologic-column-pie-pi-day-and-einsteins-lesser-known-legacy/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/geologic-column-pie-pi-day-and-einsteins-lesser-known-legacy/Pi_Day_pie_13346244934.jpg" alt="MIT&#39;s Experimental Study Group often bake pie as a way to celebrate Pi Day. Credit: Evan Shelhamer, CC BY 2.0." loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>MIT&#39;s Experimental Study Group often bake pie as a way to celebrate Pi Day. Credit: Evan Shelhamer, CC BY 2.0.</figcaption> </figure> <p>March hosts a number of special days: St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day, <a href="https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/geologic-column-september-26-1774-man-myth-legend-johnny-appleseed-born">Johnny Appleseed</a> Day, the <a href="https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/geologic-column-rebirth-vernal-equinox">Spring Equinox</a> and, one of my favorites, March 14, which is both the birthday of the father of modern physics, Albert Einstein, and also <a href="http://www.piday.org/">Pi Day</a>, which celebrates the mathematical constant 3.14 that features in some of Einstein&rsquo;s equations.</p> https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-may-29-1919-solar-eclipse-proves-relativity/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:58 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-may-29-1919-solar-eclipse-proves-relativity/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/benchmarks-may-29-1919-solar-eclipse-proves-relativity/Dyson,%20Eddington,%20Davidson" alt="" loading="eager" decoding="async"> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/benchmarks-may-29-1919-solar-eclipse-proves-relativity/Cristian%20Matei" alt="" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </figure> <p>On May 29, 1919, the moon&rsquo;s silhouette crept slowly over the sun, bringing premature night to observers in a broad swath of the Southern Hemisphere between South America and Africa. Few onlookers realized that this event would provide the first successful test of Albert Einstein&rsquo;s theory of relativity.</p>