Cause and Effect

When a person stumbles across knowledge that they have never known before, it tends to change them in certain ways. It might not be a change that is noticeable on the surface, but it still may take a toll in one's mind. In the late 1920's and early 1930's physicist Niels Bohr was doing groundbreaking work in the field of quantum mechanics. His work with the atom and its sub-atomic particles had never been conceived before, he and his team created much of what we learn today. However, there was opposition in the form of Albert Einstein, and his theory of General Relativity, which at the time was the leading case. At a conference in Geneva, France two parties argued theirs sides of which was a better fit for a theory to describe the universe. Both parties had convincing essays and arguments for their respected theory, but only one left the clear victor. Niels Bohr trumped Einstein and his supports at every turn, and his work started to gain more funding and research, while General Relativity was left behind somewhat. Einstein never fully recovered his career after this, and most of his work went unnoticed afterward. He never accepted quantum mechanics as an accurate description of the universe, and was left out of the new research that was taking the physics world under its coat tail. This new knowledge was unacceptable in him, and it changed Einstein in more ways than one.