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Einstein worked to develop more critical ideas towards his theory of general relativity . For instance, he wanted to prove things like wormholes, the possibility that there could be time travel, higher dimensions than we had ever dreamed, the creation of the universe, the existence of black holes and he seemed to become more isolated from the rest of the physics community all the time.

Einstein would often say of their ideas, “God does not play dice with the Universe.”

With these circumstances, if one were to measure the properties of the first electron, one would know the state of the second electron faster than light speed. Albert concluded that this violated relativity.

It seems that Einstein became more detached from his colleagues because he became so obsessed with discovering a theory to unify forces of our universe. It caused him in later years to stop opposing quantum theory and try to use it alongside gravity and light.

Einstein became so set in his ways. He quit traveling and just took long walks around the grounds of Princeton with some of his closest friends and associates with whom he could discuss religion, politics, unified field theory, and physics.

He was a regular sight to be seen walking around campus. His hair was always in disarray as if he never combed it or had just gotten out of bed. His pants were still wrinkled, and he usually wore a sweater. He never wore socks; they were a bother to him in the area where the big toe is located as they always had a big hole in that spot. Albert’s second toe was much longer than his big toe next to it.

Albert seemed to believe that you must stand for what you believe in or you will fall for anything. He would never waver if his conscience told him to take action on a matter even if it was unpopular.

Einstein’s health had not always been so good. When he was 69, he went to his primary care physician and told him he had been having a lot of pain in the uppermost part of his stomach. He told him that off and on for several years he had been having attacks in his upper abdomen that would last at times for two to three days at a time and he almost always vomited when he had these attacks.

He went on to add that this seemed to happen about every three to four months. He did smoke a pipe and seemed to be a bit overweight but not that much. When the doctor examined him, he could feel a mass deep down in the center of his stomach that was pulsating.

Dr. Nissen, the very doctor who had developed the operation known as the “Nissen Procedure,” that prevents gastro-esophageal reflux, operated on Einstein by exploratory laparotomy at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn. When he opened Albert up, there lay an aortic aneurysm the size of a grapefruit.

Nissen knew he could not ligate this large aneurysm and replacing the aorta with a graft was out of the question and yet to be perfected. All he could try to do was to reinforce the wall of the aorta and try to delay the inevitable rupture that would come.

A good tissue irritant that produces marked fibrosis is polyethylene. So, Dr. Nissen while having Einstein open wrapped the anterior visible part of the aneurysm with this cellophane, hoping it would cause an intense fibrous reaction in the tissue, which would strengthen the wall of the aneurysm.

April 12, 1955, Einstein started having some pretty severe abdominal pain that got even worse the next day. Albert had a pretty good idea of what had happened and at first, refused to go to the hospital. He finally did go to the hospital because he felt he was a burden there at home. The Chief of Surgery at New York Hospital wanted to resect the aneurysm by a new procedure.

Albert refused the surgery and said that he wanted to go when he wanted. He felt you should not prolong your life artificially.Hefeltthat he had done his share on this earth and it was his time to go. By doing so, he would do it elegantly.

The nurse taking care of him asked, “Professor do you think God made the garden?”

Einstein said, “Yes, God is both the gardener and the garden” to which the nurse replied, “Oh, I’d not thought of it that way” to which Einstein replied, “Yes, and I have spent my whole life just trying to catch a glimpse of Him at his work.”

In essence, the conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semi-religious trappings. The difference is that this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankindis doomed. Despite this knowledge, statesmen in responsible positions on both sides continue to employ the well-known technique of seeking to intimidate and demoralize the opponent by marshaling superior military strength. They do so even though such a policy entails the risk of war and doom. Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to pursue the only course that holds out any promise of peace, the course of supranational security, since for a statesman to follow such a course would be tantamount to political suicide. Political passions, once they have been fanned into flame, exact their victims… Citater fra…

When he died, his body was moved from the hospital out to the funeral home before being cremated in Trenton. Most were not aware, but his brain did not get cremated, it went missing for many years. The pathologist of the hospital had confiscated it. It was finally found 23 years later by the journalist, Steven Levy who happened upon it pickled in a jar by one Dr. Thomas Harvey at Princeton where Einstein had expired.

Don’t think that the pickling of his brain went to waste. There are recent studies that have revealed there were certain parts of Einstein’s brain that were unusually convoluted. Not just that, his parietal lobes were “extraordinarily asymmetrical,” and the motor cortices and somatosensory areas were “greatly” expanded in the left hemisphere.