World Year of Physics 2005

The logo is meant to represent the light cone diagram used in special relativity to show locations that are in causal contact and those that are not.

The year 2005 was named the World Year of Physics, also known as Einstein Year, in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "Miracle Year", in which he published four landmark papers, and the subsequent advances in the field of physics.[1]

  1. ^ "World Year of Physics 2005". www2.lbl.gov. Retrieved 2023-11-02.

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