Pride and Ego: Test of time

In a beautiful spring afternoon of early Greeks, philosophers and prominent brains of the land came to
gather by the beach. Thinkers as they will always be, they began to wonder the existence of the sand
beneath their feet and how small can they be divided into. Democritus a cherry old fella loved by many
stated his thoughts.

“ surely it is made of atoms! Every single bits and pieces we see is a product of them collided and
clustered together.” He exclaimed cheerily that resulted to some series of jeers. It specifically came from
Aristotle’s group of prominent thinkers.

“I beg to disagree, everything we see is composed of the four element of earth, air, fire, and water
thus so, I say the sand can be divided indefinitely.” Aristotle airily explained. He is a very
influential persom amongst them thinkers thus Democritus idea that the sand will have a limit of
how small the sand particle will be was rejected by everyone. After that day Democritus swore
to prove his theory to everyone and that he is more intelligent than Aristotle in this life or the
next.
Fast forward to the 16th century Robert Boyle became the 1st true chemist in his discovery of
pressure and volume. He was so elated when he crushed the egoistic Thomas Hobbes during
their heated public debate when the philosopher keeps criticizing his scientific claims.
Another century later, “See, they contained the same ratio, regardless of the source they are
proportion!” Joseph Proust exclaimed in his lab after he proved his theory. Ever since Joseph
was a child he is overly obsessed with his thoughts that all matter seems to belong with each
other, like they are of one. Right after he made name, he received a letter of recommendation
from sire Antoine Lavoisier alongside the latter acknowledgement of his intelligent but to his
surprise he was not a bit happy at all.
A theory quickly sweep John Dalton when he stumble upon a theory by a man named Joseph
Proust, it was so similar to the foundation of Democritus atom theory. John really admires the
later and looked up to him like a teacher. With all the foundation of theory that he gathered, he
was so elated when he had outlined his atomic theory that he worked on day in and day out like
his past and future life was at stake.
Many centuries later that the “atom” theory had been acknowledge Albert Einstein still remains
restless, he had contributed a lot to the modern science and had been acknowledge as a genius
but something has been lingering in his intuitions. He's been facing his laboratory, tacking he's
fixation with atom. As a child who experiences a late onset on language, his cheeky
rebelliousness became his defense mechanism. He never really liked the idea that other
chemist and physicist had been eyeing his 'atoms' he was so protective of it like it was really his.
He was so pissed one day when Neil Bohr challenged him in front of everybody and then later a
series of more public debates and disputes were thrown. Although friend and they had
respected each other, Einstein has been feeling very irritated and its like a deja vú he can't
seem to point out. A turning point was when Einstein heard a story through a grape vine that
Neil was talking to the Germans about building a bomb.
Albert was like a bomb himself when he wrote a request to the president regarding a nuclear
project. He was so intent in his Manhattan project to build an atomic bomb driven by his pride
and to achieve it first before anyone else especially, to lose to Neil that he acknowledge like a
long time nemesis.
He wasn't thinking about anything else or the consequences, he's only goal was to make his
weapon before Neil and the Germans succeeds in making one. After he had created such
deadly and disastrous weapon with his intelligent, he was not expecting the result of it.
Two of his bombs wipe out a city, flatten it to the ground and killed thousands of people in less
than a minute. He was left in utter shock, he was never intending it to use as a weapon. He was
so devastated himself.
As the man who started it all, Einstein was very sorry and regretted that he used his brilliant
mind to create something so destructive. “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in
producing an atomic bomb, I would never have lifted a finger.” He lamented.