Sunday, August 21, 2011

Albert Einstein

I pretty much was ecstatic to get to Einstein’s theory. He is one of the people I’m most familiar with, even before I read about him. Watching countless hours of discovery and science channel finally paid off when I read this because I actually understood it. Einstein is known throughout the world as the greatest mind of the 20th century. What few people know is that he worked in a patent office, and did not attend college at first. He was considered “slow” by many people when he was young. High school was not the best years of his life. But he has bragging rights, in my opinion, after he discovered and explained the single most important theory in history: Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Einstein even stated that physics was his first love, and then came the love of his life. Einstein single handedly proved Social Darwinism wrong I believe. If he was born “slow” why didn’t he stay “slow?” Because he persevered, through countless years of hardship and torment by society. He proved that he was not what society thought of him. When we hear E=MC^2, we immediately think of Einstein, that’s the sort of impact Einstein’s contributions have placed on society, and that’s why he is one of the most renowned scientists in the world.

- Sri

1 comment:

Cynthia Teng said...

Well you can also perceive Social Darwinism in terms of Nurture versus Nature. For example, if someone came from poor roots, he might not be able to rise up to great success as he wished because he is not able to access to the real world...resources such as books or yet alone an education thus environmental factors can play an effect too. But I do agree that it's immortal to state that a person is meant to be poor or rich because that's how their "fate" turned out to be.