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Einstein's Fridge

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Apr 1, 201627:30Science & Medicine

What do you do when you've described the nature of the universe? In the late 1920s Einstein was working on a grand unified theory of the universe, having given us E=mc2, space-time and the fourth dimension. He was also w...

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