I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn.