THE PAGE THAT DENIED!

WRITTEN BY NANDA NAIR A

Two contrasting love stories that teach us what strengthens the bond in a relationship

PART I:

Two souls with the same breath: PHYSICS.

Einstein was three years younger than Mileva. Both had taken the same course in the University. And as life as it is, Mileva and Einstein developed a romantic relationship. Soon even before her marriage, she became pregnant and it was only a year later that they finally decided to get married. As far as my instincts tell me or rather dictate me, that wasn't completely wrong. Love must have intensely blossomed for it to ever happen. But what was wrong came years later.

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Einstein came to the conclusion that " time isn't absolute" and that it is "relative". His thought experiments were bizarre and equally brilliant. People thought he was gifted. But all these ideas of "his" actually had fragments of his wife's work. In fact they discussed physics with each other and gradually came to conclusions. They talked a lot about molecules and their motion. They connected each aspect in physics with their daily experiences. Each day before they slept together, even without his realisation, Mileva contributed bits of "his" later formed theory. She cooked his and her ideas like she did in the kitchen. Yet it was depressing when he finally published his theory.

While she brushed through the first few pages she came across the "Acknowledgements". Everyone's contribution towards m=E/c^2 was mentioned except the lady's whom he had impregnated even before their marriage, whom he had slept with all those years, whom he had "loved" so much, Mileva's name was nowhere mentioned in that page!

And finally when Mileva asked for a reason, he just shook his head!

"OH YES, you might have, but I just mentioned the important one"

In the worldly experiences of a wife, she continued to dwell in. The mere meaning of life slowly faded. The man whom she loved with all her heart seem to give no concern for her at all. Above all, she was give the fragile cliche 'cloak' of a wife, she she had to wear for a very long time - until their separation 16 years later. It must have been a Herculean life for her!

IN LOVE, WHAT A WOMAN FINDS THE MOST BRUTAL IS THE FADING LOVE OF HER LOVER.

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PART II: RADIUM AND LOVE

"There is a new element! Shouldn't we separate it?" asked Marie.

With his palms over her shoulders he replied with a smile, "Surely yes!". That was Pierre Curie.

When the Nobel committee finally called Pierre to announce that he was sharing Nobel Prize for Physics with Henry Becquerel, instead of a much expected smile, it was a frown. He felt as if a beautiful flower was withering away from his own hands while he was aware of it. He felt he needed to quickly water it. He refused the Nobel prize unless it was equally shared with his wife Marie Curie whose work in no way can be blinded. If Pierre wasn't given Nobel that year then no one else deserved as much as him, and it would be a utter waste and shame for the committee. They had no other way but to award this renowned lady! Oh goodness! They couldn't imagine a woman laureate.

'With their relatively small brains, they are worth nothing' they might have thought. Along with his woman, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. The first woman to ever win a Nobel prize. When she thought that their lives were as smooth as a glass and clear as a crystal, there happened to be a crack.

In 1906, on a road accident Pierre Curie , Curie's sole lover passed away!

The same flower that he had watered one day, began to die.Nothing could stop her from death other than the beautiful memories of them together that he left behind.

Two pairs with completely different ideologies in treating their beloved!

THE GREATEST FEAR A WOMAN POSSESS IS THE DEMISE OF HER "TRUE" LOVER.

A study of radioactivity which turned to a love that lasted for eternity, a love that radiated all its way into history.