Albert
Einstein was a very famous and respected scientist as he was the one discovered
the theory of relativity and even coined the formula e=mc^2 which was a wonder at the time it was
discovered, but later it became the foundation for the atomic bombs and weapons
of mass destruction. Einstein won Noble awards for his theories and ideas that
lead human society advance and understand the world better, but even he did not
approve of what his discoveries lead to. The devastation seen in the bombing of
Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a catastrophe as this all came about due to
this simple yet amazing formula so Einstein felt guilty and later on started to
use nuclear fission as a way to help the environment, not destroy it.
His way of
thinking allowed humanity to look forward to something positive or something
interesting to come ahead and all we had to do is just study and learn about
what physics really does for the world. In Alan Lightman’s novel, he allows non
scientific people to understand how Einstein viewed the world and how he came
about his theories and gave us this sense of awe to the excitement of
mysterious that are hidden right before our eyes. As you can see Einstein was
such a powerful figure that even writers tried to retell the story of how his
theories came to be, but in the most simplified way that even a normal person
could understand and be fascinated by these marvels.
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