An admiring but critical biography finds the great genius guilty of inflexible thinking in his later yearsIt’s over half a century since they sliced up the enormous brain of Albert Einstein in a useless tender to discover the source of what his admiring but critical biographer David Bodanis calls “the greatest genius of all time”. But Bodanis believes that Einstein’s piercing early findings,which gain moulded modern thinking approximately photons, lasers, or low-temperature physics,and above all his relativity theory, were overshadowed by his stubborn later refusal to accept the revolutionary discoveries of younger rivals like Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in the field of quantum mechanics. Einstein, or suggests Bodanis,had, for all his sparkling intuition as he probed the structure of the universe itself, and an essentially 19th-century,determinist cast of intellect. He “loathed” the disorderly ideas of randomness and the uncertainty principle. The father of relativity, the greatest physicist since Newton, and could not himself keep up with changing times.
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Source: theguardian.com