To call Einstein a genius is an understatement. There are always various legends circulating in the market. The most exaggerated one is that he came from the future. He published five papers within a year, each of which was at the Nobel Prize level, which directly changed the trajectory of the development of physics. Contemporaries simply couldn't do it.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with Einstein being a genius, but a genius is also a human being. The series "Genius" launched by National Geographic Channel this year restores Einstein in real life to you.
The story begins with the assassination of Minister Rathenau, Einstein's friend, and explains the anti-Semitic background in Germany.
Einstein's first appearance was in his office, and, uh, with his assistant Betty, was caught off guard. (I only took screenshots that are most likely not to be harmonized)
Ah hey, I haven't fastened my seat belt yet, I'm just a kid!
What if the child sees it? How can I explain it to my family?
But as an adult, I just want to say something about this show
Although the car drove without any precautions, this also fully shows that the tone of the play is not touting, but objective, so objective that it does not shy away from Einstein's own emotional problems. Trust me, surprises are behind.
After driving the car, in his later years, Einstein hoped that his assistant would move in and live with him (ps. the second wife was still there at this time), and the reason he gave was:
"Stupid loyalty to theocracy is the greatest enemy of truth"
For the above conclusion, I just want to say:
Hey, culture is different, even cheating is so refreshing and refined, please accept me.
Look at people, and then look at the stars around you tearing each other up, it's just unsightly.
The whole play is roughly divided into two lines, one is the later years, starting from escaping from Nazi Germany and dying after the Manhattan Project; the other is the youth, from high school to the proposal of general relativity.
Einstein has been out of place since high school. The teacher asked him why he was distracted in class. His answer was: I am thinking about the mysteries of the universe
I wipe! !
In fact, his thinking was very jumpy, and it seemed out of line in the teaching atmosphere in Germany at that time. When everyone was reciting the sine and cosine formula aloud, he was thinking: what is light and why there is time.
During this period, the family's business was not good. Except for him, the whole family moved to Italy. He continued to study in a German secondary school by himself. However, because he couldn't bear the cramming education of German rules and regulations, he chose ETH Zurich as his university. Target.
The reality is cruel. In the college entrance examination, only mathematics and science are passed, and literature, zoology, botany, French and politics are basically blank. Heinrich Weber, head of the physics department at the time, read his love of physics and suggested that he take another year before college, complete other courses, and pass the exam.
And he, temporarily living in the family of Professor Weber's friend Wintler, passed the exam, gave up his German nationality, became a citizen of the world, and also gained love -- his first love, Mary Wintler.
When I saw this scene, I thought, wow, they are a good match, and they will definitely be together in the future.
The good times did not last long. When Einstein passed the entrance exam and was about to enter the university, it was also the time when they faced parting.
Just when I thought they would overcome the difficulties and carry on the love, I was slapped in the face.
Don't ask me why my intuition is so accurate. I usually appear on the stage for a woman with a detailed close-up and a strong aura. Do you think she can be a supporting role?
On the first day of school, he met his future first wife: Mileva Maric.
According to today's standards, Mileva's appearance is not outstanding, and she is physically disabled. She is an extremely typical image of a female engineering man. But how can our Einstein be compared with other people's brain circuits? He was deeply fascinated by Mileva's rational and logical thinking and couldn't get out of it at all.
And Mileva's admiration for Einstein gave this response:
Einstein's heart: Wow, I really can't guess you, don't you know that in the 21st century, if you don't fall in love in college, you will be in vain.
Sorry to go to the wrong set, this is the early 20th century.
Einstein's heart: The baby's heart is bitter, the baby doesn't say it, the baby just admires you, why is he rejected.
Of course, after a lot of hard work, he managed to catch Mileva and invited her to live with him, and then a lot of indescribable things happened. He started skipping classes, not turning in homework, and staying in the dormitory every day. (How can I have the same morality as the current college students?)
However, with his extreme intelligence, he still completed the thesis in the dormitory.
Professor Weber's preference for Einstein allowed him to resist the censures of other department chairs and continue to be presumptuous.
The most striking contrast in this process is Mileva's mother's attitude towards Mileva's reading.
And Einstein's entanglement with her fiancée, Mary.
Yes, you read that right. While he had a fiancée, he continued to hang out with Mileva at school. It was not until Mileva found a letter from his fiancée Marie that she decided to make a clean break with him. Mileva returned to Einstein only after Einstein and Mary officially ended their relationship.
At the end of his university life, he continued to study for a doctorate with Professor Weber. Mileva failed to continue and had to go home. However, when she returned home, she found out that she was pregnant.
Let me put it this way, a man, during college, kept his fiancée in the dark and stepped on two boats. Later, he abandoned his fiancée and enlarged his girlfriend's stomach. The girlfriend returned to her hometown alone and continued her doctoral studies. If this is now, it is simply outrageous, and it has long been drowned by the saliva on Weibo Zhihu. But at the time, in the era of patriarchy, this was something everyone was accustomed to.
During her Ph.D., Mileva's birth coincided with Einstein's father's death, and the child died early after birth. He attended his father's funeral and she carried out the child's funeral. Einstein could no longer bear the mental torment, and after attending his father's funeral, he took the train to meet Mileva and proposed to her at the station. In this way, they married naked and lived together without a formal job.
After graduating with a Ph.D., because of the previous dispute with Professor Weber in the teaching process, Einstein's recommendation letters were all bad reviews, resulting in him always being rejected by other universities and unable to obtain the qualification. Finally, under the persuasion of friends, I went to the Berne Patent Office, which is now a famous tourist attraction, which is equivalent to a civil servant.
Think about it, will a man whose heart is higher than the sky and decides to conquer the mysteries of the universe will be satisfied with being a civil servant?
Of course not, with the help of his wife, he has published an amazing 5 papers in one year. So you will see in the play:
News~~ There is a man named Einstein who revealed the photoelectric effect!
Report ~ This is called Einstein to prove the existence of molecules!
Report~~ This man named Einstein invented the special theory of relativity!
Hey? Why should I say it again?
It's almost like writing a paper, but one is better than one, and one is subverting people's ideas, and each work can be called the Nobel Prize level.
Especially when it comes to the special theory of relativity, it's just a few pages. Seeing that, Planck said contemptuously, it was too unprofessional, and there was no bibliographical citation at the end. His assistant explained that it was because his theory was too novel and no predecessors could learn from it.
If everyone has the brightest moment in their life, then 1905 must be Einstein's most star-studded year. Most people will only notice the bright side of Einstein, but they have not noticed the embarrassment of his life and the tension of family relations this year.
In fact, Einstein was a motherfucker. After the second child was born, his wife helped him organize his papers and at the same time took care of the housework to take care of the child. He decided to let his mother move in and live with him, so he could help take care of the child.
Is it a bit familiar, is it going to be turned into a Chinese family drama?
Yes. After the mother-in-law moved in, she taught her the skills of how to become a housewife, such as sewing and mending clothes. However, the wife always believed that she was her husband's research assistant, not a so-called housewife. Therefore, there was an irreconcilable conflict of values between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. After being reprimanded by her mother-in-law, the wife asked with tears and grievances:
Einstein just kept silent, letting his mother-in-law ridicule him. Fortunately, not long after, the mother-in-law was invited back. Einstein was appreciated by Planck, successfully entered the university, and began to teach. The days are getting better and better.
As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous. After Einstein became famous, he gave lectures and participated in academic seminars.
Just when I thought he and Mileva could live happily and no longer worry about food and clothing, my face was slapped again.
When I came back to my hometown by chance, I met my cousin Elsa again when my relatives were having dinner at home, which is her second wife.
It's another typical heroine's appearance, but her face is already swollen.
Elsa took him to and from social places and helped him with research funding. Einstein was also impressed by her grace. Elsa can be said to have played the role of his assistant and agent, gradually making it impossible for Einstein to leave her.
This time, Einstein also spent a while in Berlin with Elsa, hiding from Mileva. The University of Berlin invited him to teach, and he brought his family to Berlin, while Mileva was still in the dark.
There is a very interesting story mentioned in the play. It is said that after the death of her husband, Marie Curie had an affair with another man. This man was her husband's student and married husband Paul Langevin. Einstein not only did not demean Marie Curie's private life, but did not care about it, and still expressed that he was impressed by her scientific achievements.
So during a walk, when Einstein mentioned new and old loves, Marie Curie replied:
After that, Einstein made up his mind to be with Elsa, because he thought he had no love for Mileva anymore.
In the face of Einstein's overtime work, school and other excuses, Mileva never noticed anything unusual. It wasn't until a friend who missed a word when chatting with her that she realized that Einstein was cheating, and it was just before her. under the eyelids.
According to ordinary people's logic, that leaves only a divorce. Mileva was furious and felt that divorce was too cheap for the two of them, so she disagreed.
I'm going to dangle in front of you and disgust you.
Einstein is also a cow. Don’t get divorced, right? Well, let’s make three chapters of the law, so I made a list:
1. You must ensure that you have properly organized and washed your laundry, and you must also deliver three meals to my room. My study must be Keep it neat and tidy, only for my use
. Second, you have to announce that you will give up your personal relationship with me. Social situations need to be playful
. Third, you must not have any intimate interaction with me, and you must not criticize me in any way.
Fourth, if I ask you, you should immediately Stop talking to me, if I need you, you must leave my bedroom and study immediately, and there is no objection
that means, if you don't get a divorce, you can be a nanny at home, pretend to be a husband and wife outside, can't touch me, what do I say if you quarrel is what.
Wait, why is there a sense of déjà vu of Sheldon's roommate clause. Is this the case with all the physicists?
In this strange cohabitation, Mileva also slept with a man who later proved Einstein wrong.
Einstein and Mileva finally broke off completely because of this discovery. The two were still not divorced, but Mileva returned to Zurich with the children.
Despite the ups and downs of his love life, Einstein himself did not stop academically. Others teach in college classes, and he says when he starts a class in college, "Hey, this semester I want to prove the general theory of relativity, so I won't lecture, you can see for yourself. So he proved his general theory of relativity on the blackboard of the podium. The students looked down and didn't dare to say anything, but as time went on, more and more people watched him push the formula. Finally, when he proved it, The whole room burst into applause.
With the rise of Nazi Germany, Einstein in his later years felt more and more that as a Jew, he had to leave the country, so he and Elsa left Germany. By the way, before leaving Germany, he finally succeeded with his ex-wife Mileva. divorce.
When I thought that the two of them would live happily ever after when they came to Princeton, MD, his face was swollen again.
The reason was to make a sculpture for Einstein, the sculptor invited him to the house, and then the sculptor's wife, Margarita, showed up, and I knew something was wrong.
Controversially, Margarita was Russian, rumored to be a female spy, and approached Einstein because of the Manhattan Project.
In short, in his later years, Einstein was in conflict with Bohr, Heisenberg and other Copenhagen School people. Because he doesn't believe in quantum mechanics, he doesn't believe in God throwing dice, just like many people didn't believe in relativity back then.
Heisenberg can be considered a legendary mission. A few years ago, everyone thought he was a demon leader because he helped Hitler build the atomic bomb. However, in the past few years, he was whitewashed, and later generations found that he had always pretended not to know how the atomic bomb was built, thus delaying Hitler's plan. It's simply infernal.
As a German I don't have a choice, but I just want to be a good person.
The show ended when Einstein died and the brain was donated for research.
After watching it, it was like experiencing his whole life.
The most outstanding thing about the script is that it didn't deliberately highlight his intelligence, but instead focused on his life, showing him from the perspective of a real person. In addition to his well-known and countless achievements, he is also a mortal person, also has emotions and makes mistakes.
People can't be without flaws, but they're not without merit either. Einstein, more than ordinary people, did not give up his curiosity about science in his most difficult moments. Then you should also be curious about life, such as being curious about the show in the first place.
Take advantage of the National Day holiday, let's go and finish this drama in one breath.
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