The “primeval atom” and the Fabric of Spacetime

While this essay is ostensibly about Isaac Newton, it becomes difficult to say much about Newton and his imagination without discussing him along with perhaps the greatest imagination of the twentith century, Albert Einstein’s. Einstein’s imagination leaped from Newton’s three laws of motion:

- The First Law — “A body at rest will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by an external force.”

- The Second Law — “The force acting on an object is equal to the mass of that object…