Much like the literature of Hemingway or Yeats, or the paintings of Picasso, or Freud's theories in psychology, Albert Einstein's revolutionary theories in physics changed European culture. Prior to the Great War his theories had been disregarded. This reflected the Victorian reliance on boundaries and limitations. Newtonian physics were still the mainstay of physics because it presented a clear and concise view of motion and matter.
After the war, Einstein's theories built off Newton's theories, but constrasted them inthat they presented a universe that was neither definite, nor limited. While Picasso was changing the way people viewed their world by depicting that world in a surrealistic manner, Einstein's theories were forcing even the science community to view their world in much the same way. Scientists everywhere were forced to admit that perhaps there were elements within the universe that they couldn't observe and that didn't obey the previously-upheld laws of nature.
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