2005 marked the 100 year anniversary of Albert Einstein’s enunciation of his Special Theory of Relativity. At the age of 26, Einstein was working as a full time patent clerk because he was unable to land a teaching position as most of his peers had done.

In his spare time, he was working on a revelation. And one summer day in 1905 he woke up with the answer, The Special Theory of Relativity. Relativity stated that there is no such thing as absolute space or absolute time. Time and space change depending on one’s frame of reference. This idea rocked the physics universe, and changed the world’s comfortable perception of reality forever.

Relativity played an integral role in Einstein’s latest and most challenging theory, the ultimate problem that he worked toward solving for the last 20 years of his life, but failed…The Unified Field Theory. Einstein believed that if he could unify all branches of physics (electromagnetics and gravitation) by joining them into one single equation, it would consider all exceptions, and bring answers to many unsolved mysteries of the world.

To this day, string theorists are still working towards an answer, by trying to prove the existence of parallel universes in the form of multiple dimensions extending beyond one of our greatest and closest mysteries…time…the 4th dimension.