Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for 9 Years
Summary
TLDRThe script narrates the life of Albert Einstein, from his delayed speech as a child to becoming the most renowned scientist. It details his struggles with the German education system, his journey through academia, and his groundbreaking work in physics, including the photoelectric effect and special relativity. Despite personal challenges and setbacks, Einstein's relentless pursuit of knowledge led to his theory of general relativity and global fame. The script also touches on his later life, his political stances, and his continuous quest for a unified theory of everything until his death.
Takeaways
- 🔍 Einstein's early life was marked by slow speech development, which he later credited for his unique approach to abstract concepts.
- 🎓 Despite excelling in primary and high school, Einstein hated the German education system's emphasis on rote learning and left school to study independently.
- 🇨🇭 After failing his initial college entrance exams, Einstein thrived in the Swiss education system, ultimately enrolling at Zurich Polytechnic.
- 📜 Einstein faced significant challenges finding a job, partly due to a poor recommendation from a professor and anti-Semitic biases.
- ❤️ Einstein's relationship with Mileva Maric was pivotal; she supported his scientific work, but their relationship was strained by external pressures.
- 🔬 While working at the Swiss Patent Office, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, revolutionizing physics.
- 🌌 His theory of special relativity introduced the concept of the relativity of simultaneity and the famous equation E=mc^2.
- 🌠 Einstein's theory of general relativity, confirmed by the 1919 solar eclipse, established him as a global scientific icon.
- 🎻 Music was a crucial part of Einstein's life, helping him think through scientific problems and find solace.
- 🇺🇸 Einstein eventually moved to the U.S. due to rising anti-Semitism in Germany, where he became involved in efforts to warn about atomic bomb development.
Q & A
What challenges did Albert Einstein face in his early life?
-Albert Einstein faced several challenges in his early life, including a delayed start in speaking, which led his parents to consult a doctor. He also disliked the German education system's emphasis on rote learning and faced a setback when he initially failed to get into college due to not passing the French, literature, zoology, botany, and politics sections of the entrance exam.
How did Einstein's experience at the Swiss education system influence his later work?
-Einstein appreciated the Swiss education system's focus on visual learning, which played a key role in fostering his famous thought experiments. This approach to learning allowed him to visualize abstract concepts more effectively.
Why did Einstein initially struggle to find a job after graduating from university?
-Einstein struggled to find a job as a teaching assistant because his professor, Heinrich Weber, detested him due to Einstein's disdain for Weber's failure to cover contemporary material and his behavior during practical courses. This led to Einstein being the only student in his cohort without a job offer.
What role did Mileva Maric play in Einstein's life and work?
-Mileva Maric was Einstein's fellow classmate and later his wife. She was the only woman in his program and provided significant support to Einstein by double-checking the math in his theories and encouraging him in his scientific pursuits. Einstein expressed his dependence on her for self-confidence and pleasure in his work and life.
What is the significance of Einstein's four papers published in 1905?
-Einstein's four papers published in 1905 were groundbreaking and changed our understanding of the universe. They introduced the photoelectric effect, a method to measure molecular dimensions, an explanation for Brownian motion, and the theory of special relativity, which altered our perception of time and space.
What was the photoelectric effect and why was it significant?
-The photoelectric effect is the phenomenon where light, considered as a stream of particles called photons, can knock an electron off an atom to create an electric current. This was significant because it contradicted the wave theory of light and laid the foundation for quantum mechanics.
What personal struggles did Einstein face during his career?
-Einstein faced personal struggles such as his parents' disapproval of his relationship with Mileva, the mystery surrounding the fate of his first child, Lieserl, and the eventual breakdown of his marriage due to his increasing success and relationship with his cousin Elsa.
How did Einstein's theory of general relativity differ from his special relativity?
-While special relativity dealt with objects moving at a constant velocity, general relativity addressed the issue of gravity and acceleration. Einstein proposed that gravity is not a force but a distortion of spacetime caused by mass, which led to the concept of the curvature of spacetime influencing the paths of planets.
What was Einstein's contribution to the development of the atomic bomb?
-Although Einstein did not directly participate in the Manhattan Project, his mass-energy equivalence equation, e=mc2, provided the theoretical foundation for the immense energy released in nuclear reactions, which made the development of the atomic bomb possible.
What was Einstein's view on quantum mechanics and his quest for a unified theory?
-Einstein believed that quantum mechanics was incomplete because it left aspects of reality to chance and introduced probabilistic principles. He was particularly troubled by quantum entanglement and aspired to discover a comprehensive theory that would explain all phenomena in the universe, which he pursued until his death.
Outlines
😀 From Patent Clerk to Scientific Icon: Einstein's Early Struggles
Albert Einstein faced many setbacks before becoming a renowned scientist. Despite his early speech delay, which his parents worried about, Einstein believed this allowed him to explore abstract concepts deeply. He excelled in school but disliked the German education system's emphasis on rote learning. Leaving high school early to avoid military service, he initially failed to gain college admission due to poor grades in non-scientific subjects. After a year in Swiss education, he succeeded and joined Zurich Polytechnic. Despite average university grades and conflicts with professors, Einstein persisted, aided by Mileva Maric, who became his partner in both life and scientific endeavors. Their relationship, however, faced family opposition, and Einstein kept their daughter's birth secret. The fate of their daughter Lieserl remains unknown. Struggling to find a job, Einstein eventually became a patent clerk, where he had the freedom to develop his groundbreaking theories.
📜 The Struggle for Recognition: Einstein’s Early Career Challenges
Einstein faced numerous rejections while seeking academic positions, compounded by anti-Semitism and negative references. His father, Hermann, wrote a heartfelt letter to a prominent professor on his behalf, but to no avail. Einstein turned to tutoring, which offered little stability, until a friend's recommendation secured him a job at the Swiss Patent Office. Here, he thrived, using spare time to develop revolutionary theories. Despite his father's death and a low-paying junior teaching position, Einstein's perseverance eventually led to recognition. His four groundbreaking papers in 1905, covering the photoelectric effect, molecular dimensions, Brownian motion, and special relativity, laid the foundation for modern physics. However, immediate acclaim and academic opportunities remained elusive.
🌌 Special Relativity and Einstein’s Groundbreaking Papers
Einstein’s work at the patent office allowed him to write four significant papers in 1905, revolutionizing physics. His first paper introduced the photoelectric effect, proposing light as particles, or photons. The second paper measured molecular dimensions, bolstering atomic theory. The third explained Brownian motion, demonstrating the existence of atoms. The fourth, on special relativity, challenged notions of time and space, showing they vary based on reference frames. His famous thought experiment involving a moving train illustrated relativity of simultaneity. Exhausted from his efforts, he continued refining his theories, culminating in the famous equation e=mc², linking mass and energy. Despite these achievements, Einstein struggled to secure an academic position, finding solace in music and family life.
🚀 From Special to General Relativity: Einstein’s Continued Pursuit
Einstein’s theory of general relativity expanded on special relativity, incorporating gravity and acceleration. He realized that free-fall conditions create weightlessness, leading to the equivalence principle. This principle posits that acceleration and gravity are indistinguishable. Einstein proposed that gravity is a curvature of spacetime caused by mass, altering the paths of objects, including light. This was confirmed during the 1919 solar eclipse, catapulting Einstein to global fame. Despite personal contradictions and political challenges, including his emigration to the U.S. and involvement in warning about atomic bombs, Einstein continued his scientific endeavors. He spent his later years at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, striving to unify all physical laws, despite his skepticism towards quantum mechanics.
🔍 Einstein's Final Quest and Enduring Legacy
Einstein sought a unified theory of everything, striving to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. He was troubled by quantum entanglement, which seemed to violate the principles of locality. His pursuit of a comprehensive theory remained unfulfilled at his death in 1955. Despite not believing in a personal god, he saw a divine order in the universe's laws. Einstein's relentless quest for knowledge and his impactful theories inspire continued exploration and understanding of the universe. His story underscores the importance of perseverance and intellectual curiosity. For those eager to learn and explore, platforms like Brilliant offer interactive content in various STEM fields, helping individuals build essential skills and knowledge.
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💡Patent Clerk
💡Photoelectric Effect
💡Brownian Motion
💡Special Relativity
💡E=mc²
💡General Relativity
💡Quantum Entanglement
💡Thought Experiment
💡Pacifist
💡Equivalence Principle
💡Unified Theory
Highlights
Albert Einstein faced numerous setbacks before becoming renowned, including a delayed start in speaking and a dislike for the German education system.
Einstein attributed his genius to his late development in abstract concepts like space and time.
He left high school in Munich at 16 to study independently and avoid military service.
Einstein initially failed to get into college due to poor performance in non-science subjects.
Swiss education's focus on visual learning was instrumental in fostering Einstein's thought experiments.
Einstein's university grades were good but not exceptional, with a preference for physics over mathematics.
He had a contentious relationship with Professor Weber, which affected his job prospects.
Einstein relied heavily on Mileva Maric for support in his scientific endeavors.
Einstein's first child, Lieserl, was born in secrecy, and her fate remains unknown.
Einstein's father wrote a heartfelt letter to a professor on his behalf, seeking encouragement and a job.
Einstein worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office, which allowed him time to develop his theories.
In 1905, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers, including the photoelectric effect and special relativity.
Einstein's theory of special relativity introduced the concept of spacetime and the relativity of simultaneity.
Einstein's fifth 1905 paper introduced the famous equation e=mc2, linking energy and mass.
Despite his significant contributions, Einstein struggled to secure an academic position immediately following his 'miraculous' year.
Einstein's personal life was marked by a troubled marriage and a relationship with his cousin Elsa.
Einstein's general theory of relativity proposed that gravity is a distortion of spacetime caused by mass.
The 1919 solar eclipse confirmed Einstein's prediction that gravity bends light, leading to his worldwide fame.
Einstein's political views included opposition to racism, militarism, and nationalism, but also contained contradictions.
Einstein warned President Roosevelt about the potential for a German atomic bomb, indirectly influencing the Manhattan Project.
Einstein spent his later years at the Institute for Advanced Study, seeking a unified theory of everything.
Einstein's last moments were spent working on equations, reflecting his lifelong dedication to understanding the universe.
Transcripts
How did a patent clerk who couldn’t get a job teaching
become the most famous scientist of all time?
Albert Einstein faced numerous setbacks throughout his life before becoming the superstar scientist.
As a child, he was so slow in learning to talk that his parents,
Hermann and Pauline Einstein, consulted a doctor.
Einstein credited his delayed development with fostering his genius,
as he approached abstract concepts like space and time later in life.
In his words: Consequently, I probed more deeply
into the problem than an ordinary child would have.
Although he finished at the top of his class in primary school and high school,
he hated the German education system’s emphasis on mechanical learning: the memorization, drills,
and force-fed facts - and likened his teachers to lieutenants in the Prussian army. Prussian army
At 16, he decided to leave high school in Munich to study on his own,
hoping to gain admission to a teaching college in Zurich.
By leaving Germany and renouncing his citizenship, he also avoided compulsory military service,
which began at 17, a prospect that filled the pacifist with dread.
And yet, he faced an early setback: he failed to get into college!
He passed the science and math sections of the entrance exam but failed French,
literature, zoology, botany, and politics.
He had to spend a year at a high school in the village of Aarau, Switzerland.
He appreciated the Swiss education’s focus on visual learning, which later
played a key role in fostering his famous thought experiments.
He scored the second highest grades in his class, and this time, he passed the entrance
exam to enroll at Zurich Polytechnic, in the specialized math and physics teaching stream.
His grades in university were good but not spectacular.
On a scale of 1 to 6, 6 being the highest score, he received mostly 4s in his math courses,
especially in geometry, but faired better in his physics courses, scoring 5s and 6s….
With the exception of a 1 he received in his third year Physics practical course for beginners.
Professor Jean Pernet gave him the lowest possible grade for barely showing up to class.
When he did show up, and Pernet gave him written instructions for an experiment,
Einstein threw them in the trash because he wanted to do things his own way.
Although Einstein initially got along with his other physics professor,
Heinrich Weber, “”mine” wee-burr,” he’d later express his disdain for Weber's failure to
cover contemporary material, including Maxwell’s groundbreaking theories on electromagnetism.
Einstein’s behavior would hurt him when he searched for a job as a teaching assistant.
Professor Weber detested Einstein so much that when no graduates of the
physics and math departments were available to become his assistant,
he decided to hire two students from the engineering division instead of Einstein!
Einstein was the only student in his cohort who didn’t receive a job offer.
Amidst this setback, he found solace in the company of a fellow classmate.
Mileva Maric was the only woman in his program.
Despite her plain looks and a birth-related hip issue
that caused a limp, Einstein was drawn to Mileva's mind.
Mileva double-checked the math in his famous
theories and encouraged him in his scientific pursuits.
Einstein expressed his dependence on her this way, “Without you, I lack self-confidence,
pleasure in my work, pleasure in life - in short, without you my life is not life.”
However, Einstein’s parents strongly opposed the relationship.
When he told his mother of his plan to marry Mileva,
she “threw herself on the bed, buried her head in the pillow, and wept like a child.”
This added pressure to Einstein's already challenging task of finding a job,
especially after Mileva became pregnant.
Einstein kept the pregnancy a secret from his own family.
Their daughter Lieserl was born at Mileva’s parents’ house in Novi Sad,
Serbia, on January 27, 1902.
An excited Einstein wrote to Mileva: “I love her so much and don’t even know her yet!”
Yet, Einstein never visited his daughter. He never laid eyes on her.
What happened to the infant remains a mystery to this day.
Einstein and Mileva destroyed most of their letters that mentioned her.
As Walter Isaacson put it in his biography on the genius, “Einstein and his wife did all they could,
with surprising success, to cover up not only the fate of their first child but her very existence.”
One possibility is that she was adopted by Mileva’s close friend, Helene Savic.
We do know that Lieserl contracted scarlet fever at 19 months old.
Whether she survived remains unclear.
Einstein promised to marry Mileva as soon as he found a stable job.
He wrote to professors across Europe seeking an academic post.
He told his friend and classmate Marcel Grossman:
“I leave no stone unturned and do not give up
my sense of humor. God created the donkey and gave him a thick skin.”
Einstein reached out to Wilhelm Ostwald, a professor of chemistry in Leipzig,
who would later earn a Nobel Prize, inquiring if he needed an assistant.
When he heard nothing, he followed up with another letter,
“I am not sure whether I included my address” in the earlier correspondence.
Still, no response.
Einstein’s father stepped in and wrote a heart-wrenching
letter to Ostwald without his son’s knowledge:
Please forgive a father who is so bold as to turn to you,
esteemed Herr Professor, in the interest of his son.
…my son Albert is 22 years old…he passed his diploma examinations in
mathematics and physics with flying colors last summer.
My son therefore feels profoundly unhappy with his present lack of position, and his idea that he has
gone off the tracks with his career & is now out of touch gets more and more entrenched each day…
Since it is you, highly honored Herr Professor,
whom my son seems to admire and esteem more than any other scholar currently active in physics,
it is you to whom I have taken the liberty of turning with the humble request…to write him,
if possible, a few words of encouragement, so that he might recover his joy in living and working.
If, in addition, you could secure him an Assistant’s
position…my gratitude would know no bounds.
I remain, highly esteemed Herr Professor, your devoted
Hermann Einstein
Despite the moving letter, there was still no reply.
Einstein felt his failure to secure a job must have been
due to Professor Weber giving a poor reference.
He also believed that his Jewish heritage may have played a role
amid the prevalent anti-Semitism of the time.
To make ends meet, he started tutoring on the side but those jobs were scarce.
Eventually, Einstein gave up looking for a job in academia.
Two years after graduating, Einstein finally landed a job
as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern,
thanks to a recommendation from his friend Marcel Grossman, whose father knew the director.
Einstein was grateful for his friend’s help, writing, “I was deeply moved by
your devotion and compassion, which did not let you forget your luckless friend.”
Although examining patents seemed far removed from his scientific pursuits, they had a lot in common.
His boss’ credo was to question everything.
In a similar way, Einstein meticulously visualized how a scientific theory might
unfold in practice, questioning its implications and assumptions.
Einstein found that he could get through a full day’s work in 2 to 3 hours,
leaving the rest of his eight-hour shift six days a week, to pursue his scientific ideas.
As he confessed, “Whenever anybody would come by,
I would cram my notes into my desk drawer and pretend to work on my office work.”
The patent office served as a creative sanctuary for him,
a “worldly cloister where I hatched my most beautiful ideas.”
Sadly, his father would not live to see his “beautiful ideas”.
Hermann Einstein would only ever see his son as a third-class patent clerk,
as he passed away in October 1902.
Hermann did grant permission for his son to marry Mileva.
They married in a civil ceremony on January 6, 1903.
Only Einstein’s two close friends from his informal study group attended;
no family members from either side showed up.
While working as a patent clerk, Einstein came up
with four radical papers that changed our understanding of the universe.
The first, published in March 1905, explored the energy properties of light.
While physicists viewed light as a wave,
they struggled to explain how it could generate an electric current.
Einstein proposed a revolutionary idea: he suggested that light consisted of a stream
of particles called photons, which could knock an electron off an atom to create a current.
This insight became known as the photoelectric effect.
The following month, in April 1905, he introduced an innovative method to measure the
dimensions of molecules and indirectly provided compelling evidence for the existence of atoms.
Einstein adopted a cautious approach to this paper, as it was part of his PhD thesis,
and he had previously struggled to get his dissertation accepted.
In May, Einstein's third paper addressed a mystery
observed by Scottish botanist Robert Brown 77 years earlier.
Brown had noticed pollen particles in water wiggling under a microscope,
later termed Brownian motion.
Scientists were puzzled by what was happening.
Einstein theorized that water is made up of small atoms that can’t
be seen with a standard microscope, which caused the particles to jiggle.
His final paper, published in June, was the most significant among the four.
He introduced his theory of special relativity,
which explored the special cases of objects moving at a constant velocity.
Central to this theory was the idea that time
and space are perceived differently depending on one’s reference frame.
To illustrate this concept, Einstein devised a thought experiment involving
a train moving past a platform.
He imagined a scenario where lightning strikes both ends of the moving train.
A person standing in the middle of the platform sees both strikes simultaneously.
However, a passenger inside the moving train experiences the events differently.
Due to the train moving toward the lightning strike at the front of the train,
the light from this strike reaches the passenger first.
As a result, the passenger observes the front strike before the rear strike,
despite both strikes occurring simultaneously for the person standing on the platform.
This highlights the relativity of simultaneity: events may appear simultaneous to one observer
but not to another, depending on their respective reference frames
Einstein was so exhausted writing this paper that “his body buckled and he went to bed for
two weeks” while his wife pored over his work and also helped him solve some mathematical problems.
Einstein actually published a fifth paper in
September 1905, an addendum to his work on relativity introducing the equation e=mc2.
This equation shows that energy and mass are interchangeable.
The speed of light is a very large number, and when you square it, it becomes enormously huge
So a small amount of mass results in a vast quantity of energy.
If 1 gram of water were converted into pure energy,
it would be equivalent to the energy produced by a large nuclear explosion.
Following his “miraculous” year, one might have expected Einstein
to quickly secure an academic position.
Yet, no offers came his way.
Einstein’s sister recalled: “But he was bitterly disappointed.
Icy silence followed the publication.” Einstein found solace in playing the violin,
particularly Mozart, which he believed reflected the elegance of the universe.
Music also helped him think when faced with scientific challenges
His son Hans Albert said: “Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the
road…he would take refuge in music and that would solve all his difficulties.”
Einstein was so desperate for a teaching job that he answered an ad for a math and
geometry teacher at a high school in Zurich, but he failed to make the final three cut.
Although he did manage to secure a junior teaching position at the University of Bern,
it didn’t pay enough for him to leave his job at the patent office.
It was nine years after graduating that his career finally took a turn in the right direction.
In 1909, Alfred Kleiner, the physics professor at the University of Zurich
who had helped Einstein obtain his PhD, hired him as an associate professor.
This marked the beginning of a series of teaching positions in Prague,
back to Zurich, and then in Berlin.
Despite his childhood disdain for the German education system,
Berlin’s status as the epicenter of theoretical physics proved irresistible.
The city also personally intrigued Einstein…as it was where his cousin Elsa lived.
Einstein found himself drawn to Elsa, who was the complete opposite of his wife:
lacking in scientific inclination, yet Einstein appreciated her nurturing nature.
As Einstein became increasingly successful, Mileva became increasingly resentful,
especially because her scientific dreams had been shattered when she failed her college exams.
She felt that she and their two sons took a backseat to Einstein’s career.
Elsa pleaded for Einstein to marry her, which meant he had to divorce his wife.
To incentivize Mileva to divorce him, Einstein daringly proposed that if she granted him a
divorce and he eventually won the Nobel Prize, he’d give her the prize money.
She thought for a week and accepted.
Mileva had to wait 17 years until Einstein was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.
Surprisingly, he was not awarded the prize for his most famous theory, general relativity.
Einstein developed his theory of general relativity because he recognized that his
special relativity did not account for gravity as described by Newton's theory, or acceleration.
The realization struck him this way:
“I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a
thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight.”
He expanded on this thought by imagining someone in an elevator.
If the elevator is in free fall, the person inside would not feel their own
weight because they and the elevator are accelerating downwards at the same rate.
If the elevator accelerates upward, the person feels heavier as the floor pushes against their
feet, creating a sensation of increased weight similar to a stronger gravitational field.
From inside the elevator, it is impossible to tell
whether this sensation is due to the elevator accelerating upwards or increased gravity.
This made Einstein realize that the effects of acceleration and gravity
are indistinguishable, known as the equivalence principle.
He called it "the happiest thought in my life"
So, Einstein proposed that gravity is not merely a
force but rather a distortion of spacetime caused by mass.
In this framework, planets orbit the sun not because they are being
'pulled' by the sun's gravity in the traditional sense. Instead,
they follow paths determined by the curvature of spacetime around the sun.
General relativity also predicts that gravity bends light,
altering the apparent position of stars so that they differ from their actual locations.
This was confirmed during the 1919 solar eclipse when the moon blocked the sun’s bright light,
allowing astronomers to observe that stars appeared shifted from their known positions,
exactly as Einstein had predicted.
This confirmation of general relativity propelled Einstein to worldwide fame.
The world needed something to cheer about after the brutality of World War One.
Einstein and his electric white hair toured the U.S. and the world,
with crowds attracted to both his mind and his humanity.
Einstein very vocally stood against racism, militarism, and nationalism.
But like all humans, Einstein could be full of contradictions.
The man who once decried racism as “a disease of white people” expressed xenophobic
sentiments in private, writing in his travel diaries that the Chinese were “industrious,
filthy, obtuse people. It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all
other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
Despite advocating against militarism, he proposed the idea of a "world federation"
that should include some form of an armed force in order to prevent wars.
While denouncing nationalism, Einstein supported the establishment of a Jewish
state amid the surge of anti-Semitism in post-World War I Germany.
When the Nazis raided his beloved summer cottage
in Caputh, a village in Brandenburg, he vowed never to return to Germany.
On October 17, 1933, he immigrated to America,
where he faced a less-than-warm welcome from authorities.
The FBI compiled 1,427 pages of documents on him due to concerns
about his connections to various groups and individuals considered communists.
While the Feds were preoccupied with his affiliations, Einstein harbored concerns
of a different nature. He was worried that Germany might possess the capability to build
an atomic bomb, prompting him to sound the alarm in a letter to President Roosevelt,
urging the U.S. to initiate its own atomic bomb project.
Although he never directly participated in the Manhattan Project, Einstein became
associated with the bomb's development because his equation e=mc2 provided the
theoretical foundation for the immense energy released in nuclear reactions.
Upon learning that the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Einstein's response was a simple yet profound “Oh, my God.”
Einstein spent the remainder of his career at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. During his time at the prestigious research
institute, he made it his mission to find a theory that could fully explain how the universe worked.
Despite not believing in a personal God, Einstein embraced the idea of
a divine order underlying the universe, reflected in the orderliness of nature.
He believed that quantum mechanics, while groundbreaking, was incomplete
as it left aspects of reality to chance and introduced probabilistic principles.
He was particularly troubled by the strange phenomenon called quantum entanglement,
in which two particles instantaneously influence each other no matter how far apart they are.
If one photon in a connected pair is observed to be yellow, the other is instantly determined
to be yellow as well. If one photon is observed to be red, the other is also red.
The particles could be light-years apart and still influence each other.
Though, this is a simplified example, in reality, quantum entanglement deals with
properties like polarization or spin, not colors. Einstein aspired to discover a comprehensive
theory that would explain all phenomena in the universe.
When a colleague asked him why he would embark on such a lonely endeavor,
Einstein said it was worth it, however small his chances.
Even on his deathbed, Einstein was scribbling away, attempting,
in vain, to find a unified theory of everything.
Just before he died of an aneurysm at the age of 76,
a nurse heard him blurting out a few words in German that she couldn’t understand.
Einstein passed away on April 18, 1955.
Beside his bed were 12 pages of equations, this one is the very last equation he ever wrote, a
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