Anecdotal evidence informs us Albert Einstein did not fare well within a formal educational environment. One might surmise, considering the discoveries he later made in theoretical physics, the pace and structure of conventional rote learning didn’t work for him.

His Theory of Relativity remains the paradigm for understanding the relationships between space/time and gravity. The idea that large bodies in space warp the trajectory of light means, I guess, that the actual location of the celestial body emitting that light is somewhere other than the location of the light we see, a situation exacerbated by our own movement over time. This idea of there being a fourth dimension to our three-dimensional world, the mathematical specifics of which notwithstanding, offers, when considered from a scifi perspective, immense opportunity for the creative mind.