His childhood curiosities and unusual education- The scientific climate of Einstein's time and the people who influenced him- His theories, their impact, and their potential for future application- ...

Albert Einstein ... shines on it. Einstein used the very recent ideas of Max Planck to explain the phenomenon. That is, he explained it in terms of quanta, or packets of energy.

but acting more like Albert Einstein predicted in his 1915 general theory of relativity. Cosmologists since 1998 have theorized that a mysterious invisible force dubbed dark energy was pushing the ...

That's why astronomers have thought that dark energy could be the same thing as Albert Einstein's "cosmological constant," which was an extension of his theory of general relativity. Einstein ...