Einstein's Annus Mirabilus

1905 was the incredible year when Einstein went from a nobody patent-clerk to an internationally known super-scientist. In that year he published his five groundbreaking papers, his "Annus Mirabilis" papers. They were on the photoelectric effect, special relativity, and the mass-energy equivalence. To understand what Einstein means in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” when he says:

Einstein: I want an idea to take them at light speed to the edge of the universe

He is refering to the special relativity, which states that no object can travel faster than the speed of light. He was not the first to propose this idea, but he was the first to explain how this could fit in our universe. No matter how fast you go, the speed of light is the same and to compensate, time streches out to allow for the speed of you relative to the light remains the same. Essentially the big idea Einstein proposed was that time is not static, that it bends to fit the universe of mass and energy. Mass and energy turn out to be the same, shown in when he says:

Einstein: I canʻt believe youʻre saying this! A fourth dimension!

Which is a weird thought to have. We move in three dimensions don't we? Forward-back, side to side, and up and down. But because information can only move at most the speed of light, there emerges a fourth dimension that's characteristics are modeled after the dimensionallity of the speed of light multiplied by time. Three-space is then condensed to a planar coordinate system and cones of space-time emerging from it. This planar three-space is then distorted by mass, but also by energy it is found out to distort space as well. It is from this equivalence a direct ratio of mass to energy is found with a ratio of the speed of light squared. When the energy of momentum is factored in, the completed equation:

E^2 = (M*c^2)^2 + P*c

P being the momentum of the system. Energy and mass are one of the same, and this shook the physics community to its core. No experiment has been able to disprove this theory, and the results can be found in the proof the existance of atomic weapons.