"I still can close my eyes", Smolin wrote in "Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, "and see a page of the book, displaying the equation that relates wavelength to momentum." Soon after that he would "talk his way into" Hampshire College, find great teachers and get "lucky" in his applications to graduate school. As to his mission of solving Einstein's two big questions, by Smolin's account, he did not succeed. "Very unfortunately, neither has anyone else."