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"Facade", Sir William Walton, 1921
Einstein’s Elevator Experiment
In 1907, physicist Albert Einstein devised what we now call the “elevator” thought experiment, in which he dreamed up the idea of having an entire physics laboratory inside an ascending elevator. The result of Einstein’s experimental elevator experiment was nothing less than the principles underlying the General Theory of Relativity.
EINSTEIN’S ELEVATOR EXPERIMENT
In 1907, physicist Albert Einstein devised what we now call the “elevator” thought experiment, in which he dreamed up the idea of having an entire physics laboratory inside an ascending elevator. The result of Einstein’s experimental elevator experiment was nothing less than the principles underlying the General Theory of Relativity.