How Einstein made the biggest blunder of his life

<p>Imagine what it must have been like to study the Universe, at a fundamental level, way back in the early 1900s. For over 200 years, the physics of Newton appeared to govern how objects moved, with Newton&rsquo;s law of universal gravitation and laws of motion dictating how things moved on Earth, in our Solar System, and in the greater Universe. Recently, however, a few challenges to Newton&rsquo;s picture had emerged. You couldn&rsquo;t keep accelerating objects to arbitrary speeds, but rather everything was limited by the speed of light. Newton&rsquo;s optics didn&rsquo;t describe light nearly as well as Maxwell&rsquo;s electromagnetism did, and quantum physics &mdash; still in its infancy &mdash; was posing new sets of questions to physicists worldwide.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-einstein-made-the-biggest-blunder-of-his-life-1137a6c2e038"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>