Of late, I have been watching a lot of documentaries about Albert Einstein - the eternal genius. I have always had a lot of respect for the guy but not until doing some research and the videos about him it struck realize his greatness. In this blog, I would like to just write what ever comes to my mind about Albert Einstein and speak about the genius of His. So excuse me if the passages are not cursory.
Albert Einstein, if we think about him, we remember the first picture below.
But how many of us do realize that when Einstein presented his masterpiece the general theory of relativity, he was as young as the one in the second picture.
The year 1905 was one of the greatest years of Albert Einstein and for the whole of mankind. He completely changed the way people looked at the world and purged the Newtonian essence in the universe. The genius of Einstein lied in the fact that he was able to think and perceive that "Time could slow down for Light". Speed of light is the only constant in the universe and it was not time. Time slows down as your speed increases. Wow, What a genius!! I just get goose-flesh when i even think about this fact even. What a remarkable moment it would have been when this fact struck Einstein's mind!
It is only ironical that he was not given Nobel Price for this discovery of His. I think no one even understood what this great mind thought and that's why he was awarded the prize for the discovery of Photoelectric effect in 1921.
However, In the documentary, The Unfinished Symphonies, of Einstein, it says after this greatest masterpiece by Him, He was again onto some world changing stuff. What was that - "The Theory of Everything". Einstein's discoveries had led to the birth of Quantum Theory. Quantum Theory summarized in one word means PROBABILITY. It means everything in this universe is a probability. Nothing is certain. Einstein, being a man of clarity, clearly hated his "Grand Child" as the documentary calls it. For Him,everything in this world has a definite and clear reason to happen and there was nothing which was probabilistic. He hated probability.
Critics say that Einstein wasted, literally wasted the last 30 years of His life to disprove Quantum Mechanics. When the world had moved on and Quantum widely accepted, Einstein was reluctant to accept the fact. He summarized his view points with the killer sentence - "God does not play dice with the universe". The other end was Niels Bohr saying - "Einstein, stop telling God what to do with his dice".
However, Albert Einstein went to this death bed still pursuing His "Theory of Everything". It would have been great if the theory would have been completed. It would have provided answers for most, if not all, of the questions which seem eternal now in metaphysics. "Everything that has a beginning has an end". We would have known the end of the universe by this theory.
But, given that the theory was not complete, we would never know for sure now about anything. Anything could happen anytime. I am not so much a philosophical but I feel that this should only be the act of God and no one else to take Einstein to Him, before He could find out the end of what He created.
Albert Einstein, if we think about him, we remember the first picture below.
But how many of us do realize that when Einstein presented his masterpiece the general theory of relativity, he was as young as the one in the second picture.
The year 1905 was one of the greatest years of Albert Einstein and for the whole of mankind. He completely changed the way people looked at the world and purged the Newtonian essence in the universe. The genius of Einstein lied in the fact that he was able to think and perceive that "Time could slow down for Light". Speed of light is the only constant in the universe and it was not time. Time slows down as your speed increases. Wow, What a genius!! I just get goose-flesh when i even think about this fact even. What a remarkable moment it would have been when this fact struck Einstein's mind!
It is only ironical that he was not given Nobel Price for this discovery of His. I think no one even understood what this great mind thought and that's why he was awarded the prize for the discovery of Photoelectric effect in 1921.
However, In the documentary, The Unfinished Symphonies, of Einstein, it says after this greatest masterpiece by Him, He was again onto some world changing stuff. What was that - "The Theory of Everything". Einstein's discoveries had led to the birth of Quantum Theory. Quantum Theory summarized in one word means PROBABILITY. It means everything in this universe is a probability. Nothing is certain. Einstein, being a man of clarity, clearly hated his "Grand Child" as the documentary calls it. For Him,everything in this world has a definite and clear reason to happen and there was nothing which was probabilistic. He hated probability.
Critics say that Einstein wasted, literally wasted the last 30 years of His life to disprove Quantum Mechanics. When the world had moved on and Quantum widely accepted, Einstein was reluctant to accept the fact. He summarized his view points with the killer sentence - "God does not play dice with the universe". The other end was Niels Bohr saying - "Einstein, stop telling God what to do with his dice".
However, Albert Einstein went to this death bed still pursuing His "Theory of Everything". It would have been great if the theory would have been completed. It would have provided answers for most, if not all, of the questions which seem eternal now in metaphysics. "Everything that has a beginning has an end". We would have known the end of the universe by this theory.
But, given that the theory was not complete, we would never know for sure now about anything. Anything could happen anytime. I am not so much a philosophical but I feel that this should only be the act of God and no one else to take Einstein to Him, before He could find out the end of what He created.
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