Thursday, June 5, 2014

Assignment # 6 Sharing and Reflecting on Two Research Sources

My research paper was about Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and his perspective on the two cultures, Humanities and Science. Albert Einstein was a great Physicist of all times but he was also a strong pacifist. Most of our modern technologies are based on Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 and the theory of general relativity. For my research paper the main articles that I used was a book review by Pangratios Papacosta "Eisntein's Dreams" accessed from Academic One File. This book review describes Einstein's dreams and compares it with other fictional novel and conveys that the author of this book avoids connecting these different dreams with any physics principles. It also conveys that this book bridges the gap between two cultures. I will be using this source to support my claim that Albert Einstein was not only a great scientist but a great humanist as well. Another source that I used was a biographical paper called "Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)" found from AccessScience. This academic paper contains Einstein's personal life and his achievements from birth to death. It displays everything about Einstein including who he was as a person as well as how he contributed to the technologies we are using today. It also talks about how he came up with his famous theory of relativity. I will be using this source to discuss how Einstein's personal life influenced his idea of relativity. 

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