Be thankful of those who helped
us in this world. At a time when Hitler was rounding up as many Jews he could
kill, one emerged safely and changed our lives forever. His theories paved the
way for us to now enjoy GPS Navigation, yes, no more cumbersome large paper maps
to analyze when trying to drive our cars. He developed the science of solar panels
to provide us clean energy from our abundant sun. He paved the way for our
extensive weather forecasting. The digital cameras we use daily in our phones
can be traced to the theories from this man. Even the dawn of the nuclear age
of power and weapons could be attributed to the findings of Albert Einstein.
Albert was no ordinary man with
his crazy hair. He was known to always lose his keys and forget where he put
just about anything. The epitome of the absent minded professor could have
described him well. Yet his brilliant mathematical theory of E=mc2 paved the
way for all the essential inventions we all rely on so much these days. His
quirky personal life is said best in a new TV series. After all, we learn the
most from our constant fascination with the movies and not books these days. In
scientific circles stars don’t get any bigger than Albert Einstein. He became a
first rate scientific celebrity in our generation. In the 1920’s he would visit
America and crowds would flock to get a glimpse of the man. TV’s wasn’t
invented yet. It was a great warm response for a theoretical physicist.
The TV miniseries chronicles the
unusual progressive life of the man who was born in Germany in 1879. Einstein
led an ordinary life who loved people and loved to play with children; not the
usual starchy aloft scientists of the day. For a better view find the series
being shown on the National Geographic Channel called Einstein’s Genius played
by Jeffrey Rush as Einstein. Albert’s life was as unconventional as his
theories. As a kid he was a runaway, always got in trouble with his teachers,
he had a child before marriage and gave off a rebellious impudent nature. Most
geniuses who think out of the box usually acts out of the box too. His
rebellious nature also challenged him to question the methods of science. He
upended more than 200 years of scientific thinking and found new ways to
scientific development. This is why
creativity should never be suppressed in any industry or talent.
In 1915 Einstein developed the mechanics
of gravity. Before Albert, everyone thought gravity was settled with the
theories of Isaac Newton with his apple falling from the
tree. Albert Einstein comes forward and declares that he has a radically new
way of thinking about gravity. He threw out ideas about space and time curving
and working together. Suddenly, Albert Einstein had a quest to uncover the
structure of the universe. He gets hot on the trail of the Theory of Relativity
that was so revolutionary that it triggered bigotry against him. At first no
one wanted to believe him and thought of him as a crazy professor until his
mathematical calculations helped them to understand his new thoughts. A new
physics emerged based on Albert Einstein’s theories.
Finally the community of
scientists agree that there is a new direction to pursue. In 1933 Albert was
visiting the United States when Hitler rose to power. It wasn’t safe to be a
Jew in Germany any longer so he settled in Princeton, New Jersey and remained
there until his death in 1955. We all
think of science as the cold hard facts but this guy Albert Einstein thought of
science in a more creative way questioning what was known as the facts and
created new facts that led to all the new inventions we enjoy today. We need
heroes now more than ever. Think of our modern day heroes who thought in
magical ways and did not restrict themselves to rules and regulations but more
to creative unconventional thoughts and practices.
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