In fact, Hiliary Diane Andales recently explained part of Einstein's theories of relativity in a short video clip below. For her efforts she has won, the highly-coveted 2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge, which earned her $400,000 in education-related prize money, including $250,000 in scholarship funds.
Sometimes dubbed the Oscars of Science, this Breakthrough Prize aims to award those who work in the field of physics, life sciences and mathematics. It was founded back in 2012 and was co-founded and sponsored by a range of entrepreneurs across the globe, including Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social media app, Facebook.
In the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, young people across the planet are asked to come up with creative, science-themed videos aimed at stirring people's imagination.
A press release also revealed that Andales entered a 2016 competition, winning the popular public vote. While she hadn't won the top prize back then, this year, Andales rose above the 11,000 other competitors. In addition to her prize, her victory will also award $50,000 to the science teacher who originally inspired her.
In her video, she focuses on a famously difficult scientific topic, one that even the top science communicators out there struggle to explain to non-scientists. Using a particularly eloquent narrative, accompanied with some animations, she explains that time isn't uniform for everyone; instead, it depends on your frame of reference, which denotes how you perceive the universe, depending on where you are observing it from.
She starts off her explanation with sound waves, where she quickly and effortlessly leaps into how time is perceived depending on where the observer is. However, to find out exactly how this works, we suggest watching this inspirational video in which she explains the theory in further detail. In her explanation, Andales is capable of telling a very complex story in a very succinct way. It's, therefore, no surprise that she won this year's prize.
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