
A young woman enters a building in a nameless contemporary European ci ty. She walks into a waiting room where a dozen other people, with bri efcases or sheaves of documents, are waiting patiently. Shortly afterw ards, she is requested to go into another room where she meets Albert Einstein who is engaged in trying to figure out the equation that expl ains the universe. He is charmed by her, and agrees to answer her ques tions. He seems very used to receiving visitors. Among them, Isaac New ton is certainly the most regular and the most argumentative, desperat ely trying to prove Einstein wrong. Einstein and the student discuss h is theories as well as his responsibility for the creation of nuclear weapons. He also talks about his personal life, the difficulties of fa me, and how his dreams of worldwide peace were shattered. He appears b right, witty, hugely sympathetic but also tormented...
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