The first after Einstein: An Iranian?
Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator costs between $5 billion and $10 billion and is being used in a collaborative project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, by a team consisting of thousands of distinguished scientists from around the world. The goal is to re-examine some of Einstein's assertions in the Relativity theory on the way the universe works. And everyone's awaiting the confirmation of a new revolutionary theory, the first extension of our notions of space-time since Albert Einstein, proposed by a 21st Century Einstein: Dr. Arkani-Hamed, an Iranian-American Physicist.
Formerly a professor at Harvard, Arkani-Hamed currently sits on the faculty at the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where Einstein served from 1933 until his death in 1955. You can see the rest of the news on CNN's news piece.