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Type in the content of your page here. Einstein was, without a doubt the genius of his time. Who else could come up with such intense theories that basically turned the world as they knew it upside-down? It takes a mind of a truly different caliber to invent relativity through nothing but thought. The amazing part was how accurate his predictions were when they became testable. It is astounding how out of the ordinary someone with a job as ordinary as a patent clerk can turn out to be. I mean, the whole theory of special relativity was inspired by Einstein’s love of synchronized clocks and trains that ran on a specific synchronized time and not simply local time which was horrendously different from station to station. He helped change all this with his theories and his connection of abstract concepts to real life applications. “At the heart of Einstein's watershed 1905 paper on special relativity - the paper that shook the foundations of Newtonian physics - lies a "thought experiment' about clock synchronization and the "problem" of simultaneity; there, talking about trains arriving in stations and observers watching their watches, Einstein posed what turn out to be insurmountable challenges to Newton's notion of absolute time (and absolute space). This we knew. But then the talk got juicy: you went on to point out that this thought experiment might not be //merely //a thought experiment, since the business of synchronizing time frames through space was more than just abstruse theoretical physics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” Who else, other than the one and only Albert Einstein could come up with multiple breakthrough theories while thinking about trains and reviewing patants.