There was a young man in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, he was only 26 years old… They used to call him Albert but in time, his way of thinking made him reach global fame and soon after people started calling him: “Einstein” …

The first thing Einstein did was to publish a report that shifted the world of science to a brand-new field of physics… the year was 1905…

His first theory totally transformed our concept on time and space…

Regarding space Einstein asserted that, time and space are intertwined into a single continuum known as space-time, that space is merely an order of possibilities, events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another, and that time is not external, but something we experience in our minds.

He said, “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has dropped enough to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”

Einstein more openly claimed, “Space is not a separate external phenomenon… It was formerly believed that if all material things disappeared out of the universe, time and space would be left. According to relativity theory, however, time and space disappear together with the things. They are not independent of one another.”

As science was rapidly advancing, in 1915, Langevin proved that everything perceived as matter in the universe was made of a single element. Again, thanks to the previous theories presented by Einstein.

Meanwhile, around 1900, Max Planck had also presented a theory and had answered a question that couldn’t be answered for a long time… 

Physicists had trouble explaining the way in which hot bodies radiate energy. If a red-hot nail is heated even more, its light will be orange, then yellow, green, blue and violet. This meant there were energy radiation of differing wavelengths, depending on the intensity of the heat. Which formula or law did this observation fit in with?

Max Planck answered:

“Radiation is not a steady stream of energy, but rather energy is radiated and absorbed in small indivisible portions, which are called quanta…”

Planck’s claim was not understood until Einstein’s theory of special relativity.

Based on this Albert Einstein determined that light exists in discrete quanta of energy, or photons, where photons: behave both like a particle and a wave. ... they can have particle-like interactions (i.e. collisions) with electrons and other particles, such as in the Compton effect in which particles of light collide with atoms, causing the release of electrons.

He inferred, “Ultraviolet radiation has shorter waves than blue or violet light, and thus oscillates more rapidly and carries more energy, and that the speed of an electron that is ejected when light strikes the plate in an evacuated tube, is equal to the energy carried by the photons that strike it.” 

Einstein received a Nobel prize for this discovery which was called the law of the photoelectric effect.

Later, Einstein published an article deducing that electromagnetic radiation itself consists of “particles” of energy, but the overwhelming evidence of the “wave” nature of this radiation was more widely accepted by his peers, and for some time the true nature of energy remained a mystery…

Finally in 1925, Louis De Broglie proposed that any object has wavelike properties, not just light, and that the wave nature of energy was more realistic than particle…

Meanwhile it was seen that electrons were not tiny solid spheres that can be observed and measured and that in fact their exact position and momentum could be determined. 

 

Then Sir J. Jeans shared his thought:

“A solid spherical object has a specific location in space, its position can be determined, it also has mass… However, this is not the case with an electron… Just as trying to determine the position and mass of a certain fear or curiosity which emerges in one’s heart is absurd, the same applies to electrons…”

 

In 1927 Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger published papers that established the foundation of quantum mechanics. 

In the same year two American scientists Davisson and Germer demonstrated and proved the wave-nature of electrons and thus the truth of matter started to fall into place…

The electron, which was assumed to be a tiny solid sphere in the past, changed to ‘electrical charge’ and the conception of the atom changed to ‘stacks of waves’ rather than a ‘particle’ leading us to accept the truth that matter consists of frequencies, waves and that we are in effect living in a universe of waves…

 

But Einstein didn’t stop there…

He said matter and energy are interchangeable, and hence matter can be transformed into energy…

He explained that the mass of a moving object increases with speed and eventually turns into energy, which means the mass of a moving object increases. In other words, he said energy equals mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light (E = mc2).

This means, if one kg of coal can be turned into energy, 25 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity can be obtained – which the US can only produce in two months using all its energy sources!

After all of this, one very important question still remains unanswered…

“What is the essence and origin of this mass or energy? Where does it come from? Where does the power it carries come from?”