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YOUNG GENIUS
ALBERT EINSTEIN

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YOUNG ALBERT EINSTEIN

AFTER THE YOUING EINSTEIN GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL.In 1895 HE TOOK A TEST THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO STUDY TO BECOME AN ELCTRICAL ENGINEER AT THE  EIDENOSSNICHE TECHNISCHE HOSCHSCHULE IN ZURICH, BUT HE FAILED. EINSTEIN ALSO THEN TRIED TO APLLY FOR A SCHOOL BY THE NAME OF ETH, BUT HE FAILED THE ENTRANCE EXAM. SO HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD GO TO A SCHOOL CALLED AARAU AND THEN USE THAT SCHOOL TO GET INTO ETH THEN.
SOME OF EINSTEINS EARLIER WORKS WERE THAT LIGHT WAS JUST A SINGLE ENITY AND THAT EVERY COLOR IN THE UNIVERSE WAS PUT TOGETHER THEN IT WOULD MAKE SOMETHING CALLED "WHITE LIGHT." eINSTEIN ALSO THOUGHT THAT EVEYTHING THAT WAS IN THE UNIVERSE WAS MADE UP OF MILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF INFINITESIMAL GITTERING ATOMS. AROUND THE END OF HIS YOUNG YEAR EINSTEIN CAME UP WITH A THEORY OF RELATIVITY.