<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b10637f-e073-42ff-bd6a-7d29770ee046/51662661-5BD8-441F-A8BC-092A28932553/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php" href="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php" style="font-size: 11px;">scienceblogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><P>100 years ago, the way we viewed our Universe was vastly different than the way we view it now. The night sky, with stars, planets, comets, asteroids, nebulae, and the Milky Way, was viewed to make up the entire contents of the Universe. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/962514CA-8A36-4B5F-B387-7CC0F73ED48D" alt="3772-84mcnaught_druckmuller.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php">The Universe was static, governed by two laws only: <B>Newton's Gravity</B> and <B>Maxwell's Electromagnetism</B>. There were the first hints that the Universe was made up of quantum particles, such as the <A href="http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/photoelectric.html">photoelectric effect</A>, Rutherford's <A href="http://library.thinkquest.org/19662/low/eng/exp-rutherford.html">first hints</A> at the existence of the nucleus, and Planck's view that <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law">energy was quantized</A>. But other than that -- and Einstein's new Theory of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity">Special Relativity</A>, there were very few mysteries about the Universe in 1909. But one of them would change our view of the Universe forever. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/C3F622CC-DB80-4124-880C-889AA8E2A302" alt="PerhelionAdvanceAnimation.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/3EE1F93E-8730-43F9-B852-AFF9CE29A684" alt="Einstein_photo.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/58214074-30FC-4E39-B0BA-D9AD580A5DBD" alt="162571main_GPB_circling_earth3_516.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/A0163E21-BCB9-4958-9218-D6C16417041C" alt="gravitational-lens-01.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/scienceblogs.com/img/7EBBAFB4-BD8D-4FAF-9E11-FB7F573EBA9D" alt="SIL14-E1-01a.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/the_last_100_years_1919_einste.php">Lo and behold, Einstein's prediction was spot on. Just like that, Newton's theory of Universal Gravitation, the most solid foundation in all of physics -- unchallenged for over 200 years -- was obsolete. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/51662661-5BD8-441F-A8BC-092A28932553/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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