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The scientist who forgot to eat his lunch was busy cooking up a whole new way of thinking about gravity. He was a radical smarty-pants—somebody with a wild imagination. Someone whose brain could surprise even himself. Albert Einstein didn't mean to turn the universe upside-down on everyone. He didn't plan on leading others to discover black holes. At first, all he set out to do was think about motion, along with a few other related ideas. But almost before he knew it, he had suddenly made our dependable old universe seem strange and new. Which detail would be best to include in a summary of the excerpt? the scientist who forgot to eat his lunch a new way of thinking about gravity whole radical smarty-pants a few other related ideas

Answer 1

the person above me is correct

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Answer 2

The detail that would be best to include in a summary of the excerpt is:

a new way of thinking about gravity

Step-by-step explanation:

A summary can be defined as a short overview of a paragraph, an excerpt, an essay, a book etc. It is supposed to filter important information through, while leaving out any supplemental details that don't affect readers' knowledge of the main facts.

The passage we are analyzing here has several of those supplemental details that do not need to be included in a summary. Calling Einstein a "smarty-pants", for instance, is certainly not crucial to understand the main idea conveyed. The one detail that deserves to be included in a summary is "a new way of thinking about gravity." This detail reveals how Einstein's thinking led him to make astonishing discoveries and concoct a paramount theory. If it wasn't for that new way of thinking, physics would not be what it is today.