Today we will talk about that great scientist, who changed the thinking of the whole world.
This is the story of Albert Einstein – a genius of science,
whose mind was filled with the mysteries of the universe,
but whose heart was full of confusion of love and regret.
Today we will hear his unheard story – one of science, of love, of stubbornness, of distances and of deep regrets.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in
Ulm, Germany. His father, Hermann Einstein, was a middle electrical engineer
and his mother, Pauline, was a well-educated, music-loving
woman.
Einstein did not speak much in childhood. Even
his parents were worried that their child was mentally retarded! But there was
a deep thought behind this silence.
He is believed to have started speaking at the
age of four. In school, he would get irritated by the teachers' questions and
answers. They wanted to argue, not
follow the rules.
His mother taught him to play the violin,
and this hobby stayed with him throughout his life.
Science gave them freedom of thought and music gave peace to the heart.
As a child, his family moved to Italy. Later
he went to Zurich Polytechnic to study. It was here that he met Mileva Marić
.
Mileva was a brilliant student from Serbia. At
that time, there were very few women in science. Einstein was attracted by
Mileva's intelligence and seriousness.
Both of them decided to get married,
but Einstein's family did not approve of this
relationship. His mother, Pauline, felt that Mileva did not deserve her son.
Nevertheless, Einstein went against the wishes
of his family and got married in 1930. Prior to this, in
19202, they had
a daughter, Lyssar, whose
future remained a mystery. It is believed that either she died at a young age
or was handed over to someone else.
After marriage, they had two sons – Hans
Albert Einstein and Eduard Einstein.
Hans went on to become a successful engineer.
But the younger son, Eduard, developed a serious mental illness –
schizophrenia. Eduard spent the greater part of his life in a mental hospital.
Meanwhile, Einstein's scientific career was
taking off. He was so immersed in his research that he could not give time to
family and children.
Cracks began to appear in their marriage.
Fights escalated. At one point, Einstein even handed Mileva a list of
"conditions" – in which it was written that she should not ask her
anything personal, do
not interfere in her work, and
serve her.
They finally separated in nineteen fourteen
and divorced in nineteen nineteen.
In the divorce agreement, Einstein wrote that
if he received the Nobel Prize, he would give the full amount to Mileva. And
when he won the Nobel in nineteen twenty-one, he
kept his promise.
Now let's talk about their science.
Nineteen five is called Einstein's Miracle
Year . He published four revolutionary papers in one year –
- Research
on the Brownian Movement,
- Photoelectric
effect,
- Special
relativity,
- Equation
of mass and energy – E=mc².
This equation shook the whole world. It proved
that matter and energy are two forms of the same thing.
This discovery opened the way for nuclear
energy and the bomb in the future.
Einstein's greatest achievement came in 1915 –
General Relativity or General Relativity.
He said that gravity is not an invisible force,
but a curve of space-time.
His prediction proved correct during the solar
eclipse in 1999. Newspapers all over the world wrote – "After
Newton, now the era of Einstein." "
He became a superstar scientist overnight.
People would come to see them like a circus stunt.
Someone asked him – "How does it feel to
get so much fame?"
He said, "It's like a circus animal that
everyone stares at. ”
In 1921 he received the Nobel Prize – not for
special relativity, but
for the photoelectric effect.
According to the divorce agreement with
Mileva, he gave the prize money to his ex-wife. This money should be received
and supported in the lives of children.
But the relationship still did not improve.
His dialogue with Hans Albert remained formal. Eduard continued to be treated
and the emotional distance between father and son increased.
After the divorce, Einstein married his cousin
Elsa Lowenthal .
Elsa had two daughters – Else and Margot. Elsa
arranged Einstein's life. She would take care of the guests,
maintain their image.
But her letters show that Einstein was also
interested in other women. Elsa ignored these things.
Elsa died in 1936. After that, Einstein never
married.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933,
Einstein was shocked by the persecution of the Jews.
He decided to leave Germany. He moved to the
United States and became a professor at Princeton University.
There he raised his voice against peace, human
rights and nuclear weapons.
An interesting and sad thing is that at the
end of nineteen twenty-nine he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt.
In it, he warned that Nazi Germany could build
an atomic bomb.
The letter gave birth to the Manhattan Project,
which gave the U.S. the atomic bomb and devastated two
Japanese cities – Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Einstein regretted all his life that his
signature was on that letter.
He said –
"If I
had known that people would use my theory like that, I
would have become a watchmaker. "
Einstein stayed away from appearances. Their
hair was disheveled, their
clothes were simple.
He was very fond of music. In his spare time,
he would play the violin and get lost in the melodies of Motsart or Bach.
He used to say –
"Music
saved me from my thinking. "
He died in Princeton on April eighteen,
nineteen fifty-five.
He clearly said that his body should be burnt
and ashes should be shed – so that people would not worship him.
His mind was preserved by scientists for
research – this too remained controversial.
There was a price behind their success – their
personal relationships were broken.
They turned away from their sons. Eduard's
illness and loneliness plagued him a lot.
In the last years of his life, he said:
"A man
who can't spare time for his family can't be called successful." "
This sentence is a mirror of his deep remorse.
Friends, Einstein
changed science. He gave us the strength to look at the universe from a new
perspective.
He said –
"Imagination
is more important than knowledge. "
But his life also teaches us not to ignore
relationships in the race for greatness.
At the end of his life, he taught this as a
human being.
"Peace
is not established by force, but by understanding." "
So friends,
this was the story of Albert Einstein – the
unheard tale of science, love and regret.
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