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introduced the idea of a finite universe, which resulted in a medieval cosmos, previously considered obsolete and antithetical to science itself. Second, the aesthetic simplicity of the assumption of homogeneity, combined with Einstein's prestige, embedded the assumption in all future relativistic cosmology. Third, perhaps most significant, it set a precedent by allowing the introduction of assumptions contrary to observations, in the hope that further observations will justify the assumptions. In the case of Einstein's cosmology it was hoped that, on scales larger than clusters and superclusters of galaxies, the universe would become smooth." homogeneous universe whose age he estimated to be less than the age of the Earth, fighting quantum physics, calling nature "ugly trees" and seeking to enter a world of "pure marble" ruled only by pure thought, he was on a flight from something into something else: not hyperspace, not science, but mysticism. It was in this period that Einstein exclaimed that the deepest emotion we are capable of is "the experience of the mystical". So true. But what is it that one is experiencing? Then, there was Einstein the pacifist, internationalist, philosopher and humanist who signed a petition in favour of building the atomic bomb, only to excuse himself later by saying: "I do not regard myself as the father of the liberation of the nuclear energy. I only played an indirect role." Then he added: "I only served as a mailbox. They handed over to me a ready-to-sign letter; I had to sign!"** But did he really? Was the man in the ivory tower so alienated from the world that he was losing his grip on it? It was in this period that things other than bombs exploded. The combined efforts of Carl Wirtz (1876-1939) and Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) showed that light from faraway stars seems redder the farther away they are—a phenomenon called "red shift". This could be explained if the Earth was embedded in a wall of gravitation or if the universe was expanding, as after an immense explosion. The nuclear bomb provided a sort of explanation, as one of the leading nuclear scientists, George Gamow (1904-68), suggested to Einstein that the reason why, in his model, the universe did not collapse was the fact that it may be inflating at a tremendous speed due to some primordial explosion, nuclear style.” Today, scientists believing the Big Bang theory have retro- calculated the whole scenario down to the first billionth of a billionth of a second of creation. But if Walter Ritz was right, backtracking by studying the information we have today is more than difficult: it is impossible. But the Big Bangers did not care because it added importance to the finalistic picture Einstein endorsed: a small, finite universe with a finite beginning and possibly a finite ending. One way or the other, the Bomb seemed to have done something good for a tearful Einstein. Shift Happens By the beginning of the 1930s, Einstein had become an international celebrity, but he was despised in Germany for his Jewish descent and criticised by Nazi scientists like Paul Weyland (1888-1972), who for years attacked his theories on a purely racial basis. Due to this ever worsening situation in his homeland, in December 1932 Einstein emigrated to the USA with his wife Elsa. In 1935 he accepted a teaching position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, probably the most famous professor ever to hold a position there. At Princeton, Einstein felt alienated because at heart he was a German, although he claimed to be an internationalist and openly supported the Jewish movement. To anyone reading his works and looking at pictures of the older professor, he seemed sad and frustrated. There were reasons for this: imminent war, the persecution of the Jews, his wife's bad health (she died in 1936) and his own failures to succeed in his work. His dream of the "theory of everything" had failed utterly: "...1 locked myself into quite hopeless scientific problems—the more so since, as an elderly man, I have remained estranged from society here..." We do not need any more mathematics to explain the phenomenon; we need psychology—the psychology of science! How else could we explain how a world-celebrated genius increasingly refused to acknowledge facts? It seemed that by refusing to acknowledge spinning galaxies, inventing an Endnotes 38. Einstein, A., "Die Grundlage der 46. ibid. 28. Gribbin, J., In Search of the Edge of allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie" [The 47, Fort, C. H., Wild Talents, Claude Time, Black Swan, London, 1993 Foundation of the General Theory of Kendall, New York, 1932, Holt & Co. 29. Davies, P. 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