EINSTEIN

The answer did not arrive; it resisted him – quietly, persistently – just beyond reach. The equations formed, dissolved, reformed again, each one closer… and yet not enough. “You are overthinking it,” they said. But the simplicity they suggested felt incomplete. 

He paced. Waited. Returned. Not searching for an answer, but for something that felt true. And in the silence between attempts, doubt crept in – subtle, almost reasonable. That perhaps the problem was not the question… but the mind asking it.