I'm no Einstein

It is shocking for me to think that one person was able to put forward a theory that encompasses all of existence. I am sitting here watching the History Channel’s special on Albert Einstein and cannot fathom having the capacity to answer such a question. I can’t quite understand it fully, but the theory of relativity deals with gravity, time, and matter, the basics of existence and he proposed how it all works. What does his status as such an infamous being have on the ego of a man. In our dreams we wish to be something more than an unknown face in history. We all think we are special, but everyone else is special too, that doesn’t make me very special at all. Einstein was special. He figured something out that no one else before him had. His name is commonplace a hundred years after his rise. He is no longer anonymous, but a man in the mind of all of us. How could that have made him feel when he won the Nobel prize and the world all looked at his genius. He climbed to the top of the mountain and became one of many prominent names in a history book. A brilliant man. How would he feel (if he could in some sense still feel) in 300 years when a new man climbs that mountain and suggests his theory is the correct answer to the world and Einstein’s was just not quite right?