as Newton had predicted it. Stars and planets in the

heavens and objects on earth behaved according to Newton’s

laws of motion. Over time, Newton’s laws of motion and

gravity came to be thought of as classical, a comfortable

way for people to think about their lives in a secure world

of absolute space and time. The mystery of order appeared to

Then, in 1905, a little known man who worked in a Bern

patent office published theories based on a new idea called

relativity. The man was Albert Einstein(Swisher 47).

Born at Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879, Einstein had a

curious mind, and asked many questions; in particular he

once asked a question regarding how a compass works. When

Einstein was a five-year-old child sick in bed, his father

gave him a compass. Einstein wanted to know why the needle

always pointed north. His father told him that “a magnetic

field surrounds the earth, a space in which an invisible

force attracts objects, as a magnet attracts“(49). The

needle responds to this invisible force. The needle's invariable northward swing, guided by a

death in 1955, pathologist Thomas Harvey preserved

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