Despite all the mystique and all that will be admired about Albert Einstein, what he essentially did was to connect light, electricity and magnetism with the use of the Lorentz Transformation and the Maxwell Equations. In an attempt to explain how light was absorbed by the black body experiments of Max Plank, Einstein contrived a quantum-conversion theory between matter and energy.

Interestingly, it is this light absorption phenomenon (photoelectric effect) that won him the Nobel Prize in 1921 and not his famous mass-energy equation. However, Einstein's proclamation that light was the fastest phenomenon in the universe evolved into a wonderful stab in the dark. What Einstein actually contributed was that beyond the speed of light was timelessness or another dimension beyond the perception of our senses. Unfortunately, we have yet to begin to explore such a promising discovery.

On another interesting note, the field of inquiry, spawned from his work, Quantum Mechanics, he disapproved with his famous words: "God does not play dice." Einstein even went on to criticize the development of the atomic bomb for which the scientific community praised their indebtedness to him.

In retrospect, I believe, Albert Einstein would never have published his theories in 1905 had he known how they would have evolved.