Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

00:00:13 I never think of the future.

00:03:45 Professor, I... OK, but just for a while.

00:06:00 when he was on the verge of his greatest scientific triumphs.

00:07:47 He searched for answers to questions that most would never even have asked;

00:09:58 Space was just the arena in which things happened, and time just ticked along.

00:12:05 In those pages Einstein linked energy and matter

00:14:17 Every break he's practicing with that thing.

00:15:54 And it keeps our feet firmly planted on the ground.

00:18:05 Planes, relying on the global positioning system

00:20:10 or whether it's beauty in the scientific account of the order and fruitfulness of the world

00:22:10 Einstein believed that the rules used to create the universe would not only be beautiful and precise

00:24:37 And it would give birth to Einstein's demon.

00:26:29 Maybe God changed his mind.

00:28:05 For Einstein, though he could see great value in some aspects of quantum theory

00:29:42 operating within the universe.

00:31:07 And he's very vocal about it.

00:32:50 This was the crucial issue.

00:34:52 for if he was successful he would show that all natural phenomena were founded on predictability.

00:36:12 I believe that if you keep asking questions then the answers will come.

00:38:31 it was at odds with his greatest work of all

00:41:06 But as he continued working in solitude

00:42:50 He continued his fight with quantum mechanics until his very last day.

00:44:45 In hindsight it's very clear that

00:47:03 Einstein's was a life full of ironies.