a brief word on albert einstein
albert einstein was born in 1988 in a little town outside of a bigger town. he hated school, but he went anyway. in third grade he failed a math test and dropped out to work with his father as a carpenter's apprentice. albert very much admired his father but his father paid very little attention to him. albert hoped that working with his father would bring them closer together, and sought to show his father not only how much he loved him but also how skilled he was in carpentry. albert succeeded in proving to his father that he was a good worker, and their relationship prospered as a result, but albert found the work tiresome and boring and opted to quit, much to the disappointment and anger of his father; primarily because albert quit this job, albert and his father frequently disputed, and some of their altercations would escalate into open fistfights. albert's relationship with his father gradually deteriorated as albert got older and albert's father began drinking regularly. albert's mother was characteristically absent from albert's life. she would make dinner and clean the house-- she was a housewife, to put it basically. she usually got along fine with both her son and her husband if only due to her drowsy indifference to most of the affairs beyond her business around the house. she could sometimes exhibit hints of contemptuous regret or resentment, but these sentiments manifested themselves in barely audible murmurs between bites of mashed potatos. thus, when albert left his little town for a much bigger town in another country, his parents apathetically bid him adieu.
albert went on to work at a patent office stamping and filing papers. it was during this time that albert conceived his special theory of relativity, which describes in meticulous detail that everything is relative, and that, what might be love to you might not be love to me. the article, and a supplement to the article that included the famous equation e=mc2, attracted much critical acclaim. it cited only albert's close friend and earned albert well-deserved celebrity amongst the scientific community. albert got rich, too. after a while, albert got married and had a baby girl, the whereabouts of whom are currently unknown; albert didn't care for her much and nobody really knows what happened to her. soon enough, albert published his general theory of relativity, which described how beautiful and unbelievable the universe is, among other things he was awarded the nobel prize and got richer.
towards the end of his life albert sort of modified some of his theories. he concocted what he called the cosmological constant, which theoretically counterbalanced gravity. he called it the biggest blunder of his life. the parallel and frustrating development of quantum mechanics prompted albert to rethink some of his hypotheses, and also incited him to quip, "god doesn't play dice." quantum mechanics, you see, runs completely contrary to relativity.
for the remainder of his life albert chased what was hyped as a grand unified theory, cooperatively and soundly synthesizing aspects of quantum and relativitiy theories. in essence, albert was trying to solve the mysteries of life. he failed. he died at the age of 76.
oh, and sometime before he died, he is also alleged to have said:
"there are two ways of thinking about life: everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle."
albert went on to work at a patent office stamping and filing papers. it was during this time that albert conceived his special theory of relativity, which describes in meticulous detail that everything is relative, and that, what might be love to you might not be love to me. the article, and a supplement to the article that included the famous equation e=mc2, attracted much critical acclaim. it cited only albert's close friend and earned albert well-deserved celebrity amongst the scientific community. albert got rich, too. after a while, albert got married and had a baby girl, the whereabouts of whom are currently unknown; albert didn't care for her much and nobody really knows what happened to her. soon enough, albert published his general theory of relativity, which described how beautiful and unbelievable the universe is, among other things he was awarded the nobel prize and got richer.
towards the end of his life albert sort of modified some of his theories. he concocted what he called the cosmological constant, which theoretically counterbalanced gravity. he called it the biggest blunder of his life. the parallel and frustrating development of quantum mechanics prompted albert to rethink some of his hypotheses, and also incited him to quip, "god doesn't play dice." quantum mechanics, you see, runs completely contrary to relativity.
for the remainder of his life albert chased what was hyped as a grand unified theory, cooperatively and soundly synthesizing aspects of quantum and relativitiy theories. in essence, albert was trying to solve the mysteries of life. he failed. he died at the age of 76.
oh, and sometime before he died, he is also alleged to have said:
"there are two ways of thinking about life: everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle."