Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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.
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.
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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.
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.