l paradigm of the world. Then in 1905, Einstein came forth with his special theory of relativity and his general theory of relativity. This opened up a whole new world of science that Newton, in the seventeenth century could not even fathom. For this very reason, the crisis state in the scientific community began. Although Einstein explained the new frontier in science, he still agreed with some of what Newton thought. Again, they worked together, but they did not totally agree. For Newton, space and time were two different entities. Einstein put these two entities, or as Newton called them absolutes, together and formed the fourth dimension. Einstein had formulated what is now known as the spacetime continuum. This theory is extremely hard to grasp, so some background of Einstein is needed to completely understand it. First, Einstein stated his special theory of relativity, which is dependent upon two postulates. The first is simply that the laws of physics are constant throughout the universe. In the second postulate when he states that the speed of light is constant for all observers regardless of how fast and in what direction they are moving. Up until the emergence of Einsteins general theory of relativity he was still conducting normal science under the thinking of Newton. He began the crisis state of the scientific community with one simple equation. Einstein stated that energy and mass are equivilant (E=mc2). With this he claimed that space is time is equal to matter is energy. This describes mathematically how matter tells spacetime how to curve and how spacetime tells matter how to behave. This is very different from Newton because of the fact that Newton was certain that light was always a straight entity whereas now light could in fact be bent and sometimes is. This also brought about the fact that gravity is no different than acceleration which for Newton, was impossible. Einsteins theory also said that t...
