![]() It culminated with Einstein’s radically new vision of the interplay of space, time, matter, energy and gravity, a feat widely revered as one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements.Īt the time, general relativity’s buzz was only heard by a coterie of thinkers on the outskirts of esoteric physics. ![]() The month leading up to the historic announcement had been the most intellectually intense and anxiety-ridden span of his life. The general theory of relativity, Einstein asserted, was now complete. Days earlier, on November 25, 1915, he had taken to the stage at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and declared that he had at last completed his agonizing, decade-long expedition to a new and deeper understanding of gravity. It was a hundred years ago this November, and Albert Einstein was enjoying a rare moment of contentment. ![]()
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