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In other places where he had been, he found

it ridiculous that people could make more
money or get into positions of power simply

because of the people they knew.
Once he was settled in the United States

and away from the threat of Nazism, Albert
could once again focus on developing his latest

theories. One, which he had begun tinkering with
in the late 1920s, was known as a “unified field

theory,” or UFT. If he was successful, his UFT
would be able to basically predict natural

phenomena, such as the movement of objects
in the universe. It came from a desire to take all

the different theories of physics and essentially
combine them into one great equation.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

The “unified field theory,” in very simple terms, was Albert’s
attempt to explain the way all the forces of the universe
acted upon all physical things. He worked on it for many
years, and it became known as his “Theory of Everything.”

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