In social networks, a story with several years has been recovered, where you can read an alleged letter from Albert Einstein, written to his daughter, in which the scientist says that the true “universal force” is love. Shared hundreds of times in multiple languages, the lengthy missive is dedicated to justifying the force of love and the idea that it is an “extremely powerful force for which science has so far not found a formal explanation.”

“It is a force that includes and governs all the others, existing behind any phenomenon that operates in the universe and that has not yet been identified by us. This universal force is love”, can be read in one of the passages.

At the beginning of the letter, it would be asked to wait long enough for society to be prepared for the information: “When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me and what I am now going to reveal to you, in order to transmit it to humanity, it will also shock the world, due to its misunderstandings and prejudices. I also ask you to wait as long as it takes, years, decades, until society has advanced enough to accept what I will explain next.

Then comes a whole dissertation on love and that it is a force that “explains everything” and that “gives meaning to life.” And where there are scientific comparisons, highlighting that “love is gravity, because it makes people feel attracted to each other”, that “love is power, because it multiplies (powers) the best we have, thus allowing humanity not to extinguish. in his blind selfishness”, but also that love is “the variable that we have ignored for a long time, perhaps because love causes fear, being the only power in the universe that man has not yet learned to channel in his favor”.

Supposedly, this letter was donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem along with others found by relatives of Albert Einstein, but according to AFP, which investigated the file, there is no letter that places love as a universal force.

Furthermore, the curator of the collection, Roni Grosz, confirmed to the same organ that the letter not only does not exist in the archive, but that it was not written by what is considered one of the greatest geniuses of Humanity. “The aforementioned letter is a total forgery,” she stressed, adding that the fact that it continues to circulate on the internet without any official confirmation “is a strong indicator that it is not an authentic document.”

conclusion

It is not true that Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his daughter in which he talks about the theory of love and even compares it to the theory of relativity. In the document files belonging to the physicist there is no letter identical to the one that has been shared on social networks for several years. In addition, the curator and expert in Einstein’s work stated that it is not a document signed by the mathematician, which proves that the statements circulating on social networks are false.

Thus, according to the Observer classification, this content is:

WRONG

In the Facebook classification system this content is:

FAKE: The main content claims are factually inaccurate. This option typically matches “false” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking websites.

NOTE: This content was curated by The Observer as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.