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Commentary: How Einstein kept it simple

By Lawrence Krauss

2 July 2008

I HAD thought I would be sick of by now. Following the of his annus mirabilis – the year in which he produced four papers that changed the world, including his special theory of relativity – I figured the constant hype and adulation would have left a sour taste. But Einstein keeps on surprising me.

As a young man, I – like so many others – was motivated by the myth of Einstein to pursue a career in theoretical physics. Later, I began to see the older Einstein as a tragic figure who wasted the last 25…

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