4 - Something Special

The speed of light is special, it is the only part of our relative world that is self defined. The light source and the observer can be moving wildly about relative to each other but the speed of light between them is always the same. Time and space on the other hand are elastic and they change as needed to protect the sovereignty of light. Light is different from everything else in the relative world, a messenger from the absolute. The message is "there is an absolute."

3 - Light

A scientific experiment caught Albert Einsteins's attention for reasons that escaped everyone else. Two scientists announced that an elegantly planned experiment had failed to find the medium in which light waves travel. What Albert grasped, however, was that the experiment had discovered something miraculous - an absolute in an otherwise relative world.

2 - Relativity

We live in a relative universe. No place in this universe can be located in absolute terms. When someone asks us for directions to our house we have to know where they are starting from. When someone tells us to meet them at the North Pole at 10 AM we will be at a loss unless they include a time zone.

We take for granted the reference frames in which we live. We have nicely organized our space into coordinates such as latitude, longitude and our time into days, hours, minutes and seconds. Most of us view these artifacts as absolutes and never question the relative nature of things.

A young, wildly independent thinker, however, saw this as an apple cart begging to be tipped.

1 - Universe

Dr. Albert Einstein was a scientist with a razor intellect but he was also a philosopher that believed that the Universe was governed by a simple set of prime directives. He experienced unprecedented scientific success in cracking natures most deeply encrypted codes by assuming that those directives were inviolable.

When a new branch of physics challenged those prime directives, it shook him to his very core, and gave him generous cause to lament.

He spent many years searching for the missing key that would realign his philosophy with the Universe's seemingly quirky behavior.

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