Explaining Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity

They say, only twelve people understood the theory of relativity – but then again, you know what “they say” about those who say, they say.

However, the reason I think the theory of relativity is so hard to understand, is because it is so simple – albeit it transforms our very understanding.

The hardest thing in the world is not to understand something, rather, to transform the very mechanisms of understanding!

So let’s use the theory of relativity, for it is perhaps one of the greatest (certainly most well known) theory, to completely challenge the very way we see things.

Until Albert came around (apart from the Kabbalists) people saw rocks as rocks – Einstein of-course created the theory of relativity, that e=m, that a rock is not a rock, a rock is simply a form of energy.

But that’s not the real revolutionary part of the theory of relativity, rather, what he said next is – what practically, no one can really accept, even after we have believed in the theory.

Everything in this physical world is not reality.

As Einstein said, “Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

So if it is an illusion; then exactly what is the illusion?

Well that’s why it is called the theory of relativity.

When they asked Einstein to explain the theory of relativity for a layperson, he said famously, “When you have an engaging conversation, an hour feels like a minute; but if you are sitting on a hot stove, a minute feels like an hour.”

In other words, simply speaking (though it is an inexhaustible subject) we are living quite literally within (as science has literally proven) a video game – so now the question is: a. who are we? b. what is the purpose of the game?