Nothing deterred Einstein from his passionate work.
War and illness were all a part of life's experience.
He published "The General Theory of Relativity "
In Annalen Der Physik in 1916. The same year,
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Part 4. Works of Einstein, Picasso, Joyce, Eliot, Proust and scores of other geniuses are part of this.
Now in the early twentieth century, modernism was born by breaking the old strictures and verities. A spontaneous combustion occurred.
Part 3. It happened to art and philosophy and science at the beginning of the Renaissance and again at the beginning of the Enlightenment,
Part 2. Whatever Durrell accused of Relativity, are actually caused by a shift in human outlook world over, that happened simultaneously, in every sphere.
In his novel "Balthazar", Lawrence Durrell had his character say, "The Relativity Theory was directly responsible for abstract painting, atonal music and formless literature." Epitome of foolishness.
Albert was a scientist of rare intellectual strength. An interesting read...
Part 5. Proust said, "How I would love to speak to you about Einstein. (But) I do not understand a single word of his theories, not knowing algebra. (Nevertheless) it seems we have analogous ways of deforming Time."