Let's make this birthday one to remember.

76 years old (Born on November 28, 1948)

Happy Birthday, Alan! May your day be filled with timeless laughter—though considering you showed us that time is relative in "Einstein's Dreams," we're not sure how candles on your cake actually age you! Your brilliant weaving of science and literature has taught humanity more about relativity and poetic beauty than Einstein’s own crazy hair could ever reveal.

Your decades at MIT guiding students between physics equations and literary metaphors prove you're the professor we'd all bend spacetime to hang out with. Wishing endless inspiration (and perhaps a Nobel Prize nomination for Best Use of Physics in Literature). Celebrate wisely—or wildly!