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from "Physics of the Imposible" 2008, Doubleday NY What was the secret of his genius? Perhaps one clue was his ability to think in physical pictures (e.g. moving trains, accelerating clocks, stretched fabrics) rather than pure mathematics. Einstein once said that unless a theory can be explained to a child, the theory was probably useless. The essence of a theory has to be captured by a physical…