Book Title: Jaina Gazette 1930 03
Author(s): Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

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________________ PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN 219 looked up. He blinked at the sun streaming in through the window and gradually came down to earth from his intellectual labours. Rising stiffly, he crossed to the door, unlocked it, and admitted a pleasantly-smiling woman. “Good morning Albert" she said :—“ Time for your breakfast, isn't it ?" And Professor Einstein, the world's greatest thinker, unwrapped the towel from his forehead, rubbed his aching eyes, and kissed his wife good morning. Ten minutes later, in dressing gown and slippers, he was sipping a glass of milk and telling his wife, who understood not one word in ten, of all he has achieved in a night of hard mental toil The master physicist had progressed a stage further on the road to man's mastery of the unknown. And so Einstein lives. Just like any modest, unnoticed citizen he inhabits unpretentious apartments in an undistinguished suburb. Yet from the head of this Swiss Jew have come theories that revolutionise all the knowledge that humanity has amassed. And the sun itself has confirmed them. Professor Einstein is best known as the discoverer of “Relativity"and yet very few understand what it is all about. In a general way, the masses know that, somehow, here is a man who has at last been able to throw some light on the structure of the Universe. To explain Relativity, to link the behaviour of electricity and gravity, Einstein had recourse to symbols which many of the greatest men of science had never before seen. Mrs. Einstein does not understand her husband's theories. The scientist has a woman secretary, but she has no grasn of what it is all about. Distracted by a deluge of queries she said to him one day: “What shall I say is Relativity?" The thinker replied with an unexpected parable. " When a man talks to a pretty girl for an hour it seems Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com

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