Albert Einstein once said. . .
"The thing that sometimes makes me hazy, is am I or the others crazy?"
It's all relative isn't it? He was an extraordinary character. Even his 'Theory of Relativity' defied conventional thinking. He stood out in a crowd of people who were afraid to think differently. And he was ridiculed for it. What it must have been like to stand up and say that a belief that has been accepted as correct for so many years -was wrong!
Without him we wouldn't have known that E=mc2. He also told us about quantum light- the theory that light travels in little packets and always at a constant rate- regardless of where in space or earth it is. He also proved the existance of the atom. You know the saying "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" -Einstein again!
I'm sure all of you have asked this question before "Why is the sky blue?", but did you know that Einstein was the only person who actually answered it!? He did all of this by the time he was 26 and breaking new ground every time he released his findings.
Then there's the "String Theory". The concept is that everything is connected. As it stands, string theory is unproved, and perhaps unprovable, as it involves interactions at energy levels far beyond any we can handle. But to those versed enough in the language of math to follow it, it is beautiful. And in its beauty, it honours its creator.
Yet we called him simple. For half of his life, we told him that he would never become anything, and for the second half, we praised his work. The ideas he started have no end, and some we haven't even been able to grasp. He was a radical and ahead of his time. It's no wonder, that he felt the need to write: "The thing that sometimes makes me hazy, is am I or the others crazy?"
It's all relative isn't it? He was an extraordinary character. Even his 'Theory of Relativity' defied conventional thinking. He stood out in a crowd of people who were afraid to think differently. And he was ridiculed for it. What it must have been like to stand up and say that a belief that has been accepted as correct for so many years -was wrong!
Without him we wouldn't have known that E=mc2. He also told us about quantum light- the theory that light travels in little packets and always at a constant rate- regardless of where in space or earth it is. He also proved the existance of the atom. You know the saying "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" -Einstein again!
I'm sure all of you have asked this question before "Why is the sky blue?", but did you know that Einstein was the only person who actually answered it!? He did all of this by the time he was 26 and breaking new ground every time he released his findings.
Then there's the "String Theory". The concept is that everything is connected. As it stands, string theory is unproved, and perhaps unprovable, as it involves interactions at energy levels far beyond any we can handle. But to those versed enough in the language of math to follow it, it is beautiful. And in its beauty, it honours its creator.
Yet we called him simple. For half of his life, we told him that he would never become anything, and for the second half, we praised his work. The ideas he started have no end, and some we haven't even been able to grasp. He was a radical and ahead of his time. It's no wonder, that he felt the need to write: "The thing that sometimes makes me hazy, is am I or the others crazy?"
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