ALBERT EINSTEIN: OPPORTUNITY AND PERCEPTION
Talk given at The 8th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM-Tokyo '05), 22–25 August 2005, Japan.
The year 1905 has been called Albert Einstein's “Annus Mirabilis.” It was during that year that he caused revolutionary changes in man's primordial concepts about the physical world: space, time, energy, light and matter. How could a 26-year-old clerk, previously unknown, cause such profound conceptual changes, and thereby open the door to the era of modern scientific technological world? No one, of course, can answer that question. But one can, perhaps, analyze some factors that were essential to his stepping into such a historic role…