Question?
Can we shape the years we have left?

I only arrived on this planet in 1948, but even as a child I was fascinated by a man named Albert Einstein. I learned that several years ago he revolutionized our understanding of the universe, of time, energy, and matter. We are still stumbling upon overwhelming confirmations of his predictions, one example being gravitational waves, which were observed for the first time on September 14, 2015, in the LIGO experiment. When I think about genius, it rings a bell in my mind and Albert Einstein comes to mind. Where did he get his brilliant ideas? It was probably a mixture of qualities such as intuition, originality, and blinding brilliance. Einstein had the ability to look beneath the surface and uncover the underlying structure.

He truly did not care about common sense—that is, the idea that things had to be the way they appeared to be. He had the courage to pursue ideas that seemed totally absurd to others. And that made him absolutely free to be „brilliant“—a genius of his time and for all times to come. A key element for Einstein was imagination!
Many of his discoveries stemmed from his ability to constantly reimagine the universe with the help of thought experiments.
Here is a highly scientific example: at the age of 16, he imagined riding on a beam of light, and it occurred to him (naturally) that from this position, light is perceived as a frozen, fixed wave. This vivid idea ultimately led him to develop the

„special theory of relativity.“

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