Word: einsteinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Einsteinian revolution has produced a paradox: while vastly extending mankind's reach, it has also exposed the essentially finite nature of the human scale. Living as we do on a speck in a universe whose extent is beyond our capacity to fathom, the unprecedented growth of human power has correspondingly created an imperative for humility. It is no accident that during a life of incomparable scientific achievement, Einstein often said, "God does not play dice with the universe...
...every century, people have concluded that theirs was the most enlightened of all times and that any scientific questions not currently answered might never be. In this century, however, maybe it's finally true. Once you've unleashed the power of the atom in the sands of Alamogordo, the Einsteinian interchangeability of energy and matter becomes a settled question. Big ideas like quantum physics and the structure of DNA have been established just as conclusively...
...exercise works. By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest...
...Richard Gott's calculations, which appear in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, create an imaginary time machine that takes advantage of an Einsteinian concept: that both space and time are distorted in the presence of very large masses or when objects are moving at speeds approaching the velocity of light. Gott is not the first to take this tack; in 1988 a Caltech physicist, Kip Thorne, and two colleagues constructed their own theoretical time machine and wrote about it in the same journal...