Foreward

In the first years of the 20th century, a young 20-something employee at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, spent his free time in pleasant contemplation of the great physical questions of his day. Why were electrons ejected from materials subject to intense light in a counter-intuitive way? Why were studies seeking the ether, that hypothetical ocean of light media, consistently failing? How did Maxwell’s model of light propagation mesh with Newton’s laws of motion?

One of the results of