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COPYRIGHT 2005 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
This year marks the centennial of Einstein's annus mirabilis, a commemoration that, to my mind, is far more significant than the centennial of the great physicist's birth. In 1905 the young Einstein published a remarkable series of four scientific papers, culminating with his special theory of relativity in June and, in September, a report on the consequences of the theory, his formulation for the equivalence of mass and energy, E=[mc.sup.2]. In one year, Einstein produced an outpouring of insights so profound that they set the stage...
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