Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

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

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

00:06:05 Because it was in this small Swiss City

00:07:52 he called them his thought experiments.

00:10:07 your watch ticked along at the same rate.

00:12:15 What Einstein showed with E = MC squared is that there's a symmetry between energy and matter.

00:14:30 I admire his persistence.

00:16:21 Einstein's great insight was that all massive bodies like planets and stars

00:18:48 had already sown the seeds of what would become his doomed obsession

00:20:37 a beautiful pattern that is expressed actually also in beautiful mathematics as it turns out

00:22:45 Everything could be predicted with certainty, no matter what it was.

00:25:30 People had been working for about twenty-five years trying to understand the puzzles of quantum theory

00:26:57 Sometimes I don't think we need God to make us look foolish

00:28:37 He really hated the idea that you were surrendering to the world of probabilities.

00:30:11 essentially in the same way that Newton had thought about the world.

00:31:50 He felt at ease talking to kings and queens as well as little children.

00:33:43 Einstein hoped that by combining these two forces the unpredictability at the heart of quantum mechanics

00:35:37 He wanted an equation perhaps no more than one inch long

00:37:45 If Einstein was right

00:40:06 As a famous Jew he had a price on his head.

00:42:04 that behaved just as unpredictably as quantum mechanics said they should.

00:44:11 his body finally gave out

00:45:58 And at present, it's certainly my belief that the, the best candidate we have is the string theory.

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