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7/13 Color footage of Einstein:
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\_ obJewBaiting.
\_ The bastard is smart but is still a bastard. "His letters reveal a
tumultuous personal life, married twice and indifferent toward his
children while obsessed with physics. Yet he charmed lovers and
admirers with poetry and sailboat outings." What as ASSHOLE.
I guess you can say that he's extremely brilliant and contributed
greatly to mankind. He's also extremely horny and takes little
responsibility for women he fucks and children he created.
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/Newszine/health_science/5.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153696,00.html
\_ Hey asshole. Why do you keep deleting all replies to your
frothing?
\_ I didn't delete them, I just unintentionally overwritten
them since I don't use motdedit or vi
\_ I didn't kill him, I just shot him in the head. Blame
the bullet.
\_ I think this kind of defense are actually used in
manslughter trials, sadly.
\-FYI: one of einstein's children operated out of ucbberkeley
\_ Frank Lloyd Wright did many of the same things: ignored
children, had mistresses, obsessed with his work. Are there
examples of geniuses who were consummate family men?
\_ Yes, but FLW wasn't a Jew, which I suspect is what is really
clamping froth-boy's nipples.
\_ Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
Not like you.
\_ is that a punk rock reference? you're so cool!
\_ It is much cooler to accuse someone of anti-semitism
on the basis of absolutely no evidence.
\- there is a somewhat famous example in moral
philosophy that looks at paul gaugain chosen
by bernard williams [now dead but formerly
ucb phil] on this point ... "does success excuse
not honoring some claims people have on you".
\_ iirc, Euler was a family man (twice married) but took care
of his kids, grandkids, &c.
Other examples from the top of my head: Bohr, Feynman,
Jefferson (and don't give me that crap about Jefferson's
slave kids, DNA testing shows that Jefferson's brother
was most likely the parent of the slave kids - Jefferson
gave his word to his wife when she died that there would
be no other women and Jefferson kept it).
Re Einstein - Two points:
(1) He is not a bastard as his parents were married at the
time of his birth.
(2) Even assuming the colloquial meaning of "bad person",
Einstein does not qualify. He may have been a distant
or less than ideal father (many non-genius fathers
fall into this category) but he never really neglected
his children. For example, he provided Mileva (wife 1)
and the children w/ all the money from his Nobel
prize. Also, he was basically separated from Mileva
when he started seeing Elza (wife 2). There is some
evid that he saw women on the side some years after
he married Elza but there is no proof that he fathered
any children w/ them (or that he dated anyone other
than Elza during his marriage).
\_ meh
\_ There was color movie back in 1943?
\_ Ever seen Wizard of Oz?
\_ This reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin asks his
dad why old photos are always in black and white. |
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| iml.jou.ufl.edu/Newszine/health_science/5.html From the past to the present the genius philosopher, scientist and activist is still c elebrated. By JOSEPH B VERRENGIA The Associated Press April 16-- He stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue like the Beatles or Marilyn Monroe. He could've been president of Israel or played violin at Carneg ie Hall, but he was too busy thinking. His musings on God, love and the meaning of life grace our greeting cards and day-timers. Fifty years aft er his death, his shock of white hair and droopy mustache still symboliz e genius. A fiberglass head of scientist Albert Einstein is delivere d to the Science Museum in London for the exhibition 'Move Over Einstein : The Next Generation Is Here' ( AP Photo/PA, Fiona Hanson) Einstein remains the foremost scientist of the modern era. Looking back 2 ,400 years, only Newton, Galileo and Aristotle were his equals. Around the world, universities and academies are celebrating the 100th an niversary of Einstein's "miracle year" when he published five scientific papers in 1905 that fundamentally changed our grasp of space, time, lig ht and matter. Only he could top himself about a decade later with his t heory of general relativity. Born in the era of horse-drawn carriages, his ideas launched a dazzling t echnological revolution that has generated more change in a century than in the previous two millennia. Computers, satellites, telecommunication, lasers, television and nuclear power all owe their invention to ways in which Einstein peeled back the veneer of the observable world to expose a stranger and more complicated reality underneath. And, he launched an intellectual quest for a single coherent law that gov erns the universe. Einstein said such a unified super-theory of everythi ng, still unwritten, would enable us to "read the mind of God." "We are a different race of people than we were a century ago," says astr ophysicist Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History, "utt erly and completely different, because of Einstein." Yet there is more, and it is why Einstein transcends mere genius and has become our culture's grandfatherly icon. He escaped Hitler's Germany and devoted the rest of his life to humanitar ian and pacifist causes with an authority unmatched by any scientist tod ay, or even most politicians and religious leaders. He used his celebrity to speak out against fascism, racial prejudice and the McCarthy hearings. His letters reveal a tumultuous personal life, married twice and indiffer ent toward his children while obsessed with physics. Yet he charmed love rs and admirers with poetry and sailboat outings. He famously stuck his tongue out at photographers, that is, when he wasn' t wearing a Native American war bonnet or some other get-up. He would walk home from his office at Princeto n University, sockless and submerged in the pursuit of the "eternal ridd le," letting his umbrella rattle against the bars of an iron fence. If h is umbrella skipped a bar, he would go back to the beginning of the fenc e and start over. In those solitary moments, he unconsciously demonstrated the traits, inte nse concentration, disregard for fashion and innate playfulness, that wo uld rescue him when, inevitably, he would be interrupted by both preside nts and passers-by to explain the universe. "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that i s something," Einstein once said, "wearing stripes with plaid comes easy ." The most notable is a 12-foot bronze at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington depicti ng the wrinkled old sage gazing at his famous Emc2 formula. "It's one of the worst pieces of public sculpt ure," says the retired National Science Foundation physics program offic er. "It makes him look like one of the Three Stooges reading his horosco pe." The Einstein that Sinclair and others would prefer immortalized is circa 1905, when he was 26 and about to rock the world. He called it his "c obbler's job," but for seven years he analyzed a stream of inventions de aling with railroad timekeeping and other matters of precision that rais ed cosmic possibilities in his fertile mind. After hours, he would work furiously on his "thought experiments," that s mashed through the limits of established physics. "Imagination is more important than knowledge," Einstein said. In 1905, he published five landmark papers without footnotes or citations . It marked the beginning of an unrivaled, two-decade intellectual burst . Here is a brief chronology of his miracle year: March, 1905: Conventional physics described light as a wave and could not explain how light can knock electrons off metal. Einstein showed that l ight is made of tiny packets of energy, or quanta, that can behave like individual particles, too. This duality is the basis of quantum theory, a pillar of modern physics s o paradoxical that even Einstein didn't entirely buy into it. His explan ation of this "photoelectric effect" won him the Nobel prize in 1921. April: Based on cafe conversations over tea, Einstein submits a paper tha t determined the size of sugar molecules by calculating their diffusion in the liquid. May: He shows how particles (like pollen) that appear to be independently moving in water are being jostled by atoms in water that are moving cha otically. Known as Brownian motion, Einstein's calculations confirmed th e atom's existence and by extension, the makeup of chemical elements. June: Einstein's paper on "special relativity" separates him from the mai nstream physics crowd. Newton considered gravity to be absolute _ mass a ttracts mass. It's what makes gas and dust form stars and debris form pl anets. Scientists had con cluded that light was just one of many kinds of electromagnetic waves mo ving through an unseen medium they called ether, and the speed of light is always the same. Einstein recalled a teenage daydream of racing a light beam. According to the physics of his day, if he moved as fast as the light, then the beam would be stationary in space. Einstein said the speed of light is constant at 186,282 miles per second. But it will appear different depending on where you are and how fast yo u are traveling. For example, clocks on orbiting satellites run a bit slower because the s atellites are orbiting at 17,000 mph. They have programs that help them align with clocks on Earth. Or, suppose you were to "witness" a star exploding into a supernova. The explosion occurred thousands of years ago, but it has taken that long fo r the light to reach you here. November: Einstein publishes an extension of special relativity regarding the conversion of mass into energy, noting that the "mass of a body is a measure of its energy content." In 1907, he abbreviated it to what wou ld become science's most famous equation: The amount of energy equals ma ss times the speed of light squared, or Emc2. C2 is such a huge number that even small amounts of mass pack big power. This became the theoretical basis for both atomic explosions and atomic e nergy. "Each of these papers is a landmark in physics," said University of Maryl and physicist S James Gates. "And yet all of his work in 1905 is a prel ude to his greatest composition _ the theory of general relativity." Special relativity was incomplete because it did not deal with gravity. A planet traces a curved orbit because the sun's gravity tugs at the planet. In Einstein's relative world, matter warps the time and space around it. So, the sun's mass dents and distorts the space-time fabric, curving the planet's trajectory. He reasoned that even particles of light, which have very tiny mass, shou ld be affected in this way. In 1919, astronomers watching a solar eclipse observed the light from a d istant star being deflected by the darkening sun's mass _ by a few hundr edths of a millimeter. General relativity laid the foundation for all kinds of discoveries, such as the Big Bang, the expansion of the universe and black holes. Yet relativity is both so profound and confounding that even other physic ists have trouble grasping its nuances. Einstein described relativity this way: "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a prett... |
| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153696,00.html He could've been president of Israel or played vio lin at Carnegie Hall, but he was too busy thinking. His musings on God, love and the meaning of life grace our greeting cards and day-timers. Fi fty years after his death, his shock of white hair and droopy mintellect ual quest for a single coherent law that governs the universe. Einstein said such a unified super-theory of everything, still unwritten, would e nable us to "read the mind of God." s earch), "utterly and completely different, because of Einstein." Yet there is more, and it is why Einstein transcends mere genius and has become our culture's grandfatherly icon. He escaped Hitler's Germany and devoted the rest of his life to humanitar ian and pacifist causes with an authority unmatched by any scientist tod ay, or even most politicians and religious leaders. His letters reveal a tumultuous personal life married twice and indiffe rent toward his children while obsessed with physics. Yet he charmed lov ers and admirers with poetry and sailboat outings. He famously stuck his tongue out at photographers that is, when he wasn 't wearing a Native American war bonnet or some other get-up. He would walk home from his office at Princeto n University, sockless and submerged in the pursuit of the "eternal ridd le," letting his umbrella rattle against the bars of an iron fence. If h is umbrella skipped a bar, he would go back to the beginning of the fenc e and start over. In those solitary moments, he unconsciously demonstrated the traits int ense concentration, disregard for fashion and innate playfulness that would rescue him when, inevitably, he would be interrupted by both presi dents and passers-by to explain the universe. "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that i s something," Einstein once said, "wearing stripes with plaid comes easy ." search) in Washi ngton depicting the wrinkled old sage gazing at his famous E = MC Rolf Sinclair despises it. "It's one of the worst pieces of public sculpt ure," says the retired National Science Foundation physics program offic er. "It makes him look like one of the Three Stooges reading his horosco pe." The Einstein that Sinclair and others would prefer immortalized is circa 1905, when he was 26 and about to rock the world. He called it his "c obbler's job," but for seven years he analyzed a stream of inventions de aling with railroad timekeeping and other matters of precision that rais ed cosmic possibilities in his fertile mind. After hours, he would work furiously on his "thought experiments," that s mashed through the limits of established physics. "Imagination is more important than knowledge," Einstein said. In 1905, he published five landmark papers without footnotes or citations . It marked the beginning of an unrivaled, two-decade intellectual burst . Here is a brief chronology of his miracle year: March, 1905: Conventional physics described light as a wave and could not explain how light can knock electrons off metal. Einstein showed that l ight is made of tiny packets of energy, or quanta, that can behave like individual particles, too. This duality is the basis of quantum theory, a pillar of modern physics s o paradoxical that even Einstein didn't entirely buy into it. His explan ation of this "photoelectric effect" won him the Nobel prize in 1921. April: Based on cafe conversations over tea, Einstein submits a paper tha t determined the size of sugar molecules by calculating their diffusion in the liquid. May: He shows how particles (like pollen) that appear to be independently moving in water are being jostled by atoms in water that are moving cha otically. Known as Brownian motion, Einstein's calculations confirmed th e atom's existence and by extension, the makeup of chemical elements. June: Einstein's paper on "special relativity" separates him from the mai nstream physics crowd. Newton considered gravity to be absolute mass a ttracts mass. It's what makes gas and dust form stars and debris form pl anets. Scientists had con cluded that light was just one of many kinds of electromagnetic waves mo ving through an unseen medium they called ether, and the speed of light is always the same. Einstein recalled a teenage daydream of racing a light beam. According to the physics of his day, if he moved as fast as the light, then the beam would be stationary in space. Einstein said the speed of light is constant at 186,282 miles per second. But it will appear different depending on where you are and how fast yo u are traveling. For example, clocks on orbiting satellites run a bit slower because the s atellites are orbiting at 17,000 mph. They have programs that help them align with clocks on Earth. Or, suppose you were to "witness" a star exploding into a supernova. The explosion occurred thousands of years ago, but it has taken that long fo r the light to reach you here. November: Einstein publishes an extension of special relativity regarding the conversion of mass into energy, noting that the "mass of a body is a measure of its energy content." In 1907, he abbreviated it to what wou ld become science's most famous equation: The amount of energy equals ma ss times the speed of light squared, or E C2 is such a huge number that even small amounts of mass pack big power. This became the theoretical basis for both atomic explosions and atomic e nergy. "Each of these papers is a landmark in physics," said University of Maryl and physicist S James Gates. "And yet all of his work in 1905 is a prel ude to his greatest composition the theory of general relativity." Special relativity was incomplete because it did not deal with gravity. A planet traces a curved orbit because the sun's gravity tugs at the planet. In Einstein's relative world, matter warps the time and space around it. So, the sun's mass dents and distorts the space-time fabric, curving the planet's trajectory. He reasoned that even particles of light, which have very tiny mass, shou ld be affected in this way. In 1919, astronomers watching a solar eclipse observed the light from a d istant star being deflected by the darkening sun's mass by a few hundr edths of a millimeter. General relativity laid the foundation for all kinds of discoveries, such as the Big Bang, the expansion of the universe and black holes. Yet relativity is both so profound and confounding that even other physic ists have trouble grasping its nuances. Einstein described relativity this way: "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour , and it seems like a minute. In a lifetime that coincided with Rudolph Valentino and Clark Gable, it's hard to imagine Einstein as a lady's man. But physics always wa s his first love and that was the trouble. The young Einstein's indifferent, even ruthless, nature is evident in his dealings with his first wife, Mileva Maric. She and Einstein were stude nts at the renowned Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. In effusive letters and poetry, he called her Dollie and himself Johnny. She gave birth to an out-of-wedlock daughter at her parents' home in Hung ary. She appears to have be en a sounding board for his ideas, but historians doubt she was a true c ollaborator. They married in 1902 and Mileva bore two sons, but their pa ssion soured as Einstein's reputation grew. He complained that he had no time for marital "chatter." that I receive my three meals regularly in my room," h e wrote in his cold list of conditions. "You are neither to expect intim acy nor to reproach me in any way." But eight years later, he gave her the $32,000 purse from his Nobel Prize for physics. Einstein had an affair with his German cousin, Elsa Lowenthal, and she nu rsed him back to health when he collapsed from nervous exhaustion in 191 7 They married two years later, but she soon found herself tolerating h is girlfriends. Until his own death from heart disease on April 18, 1955, relatives and h is secretary kept house for Einstein at 112 Mercer Street. He also devel oped attachments to several women who shared his love of music, sailing and world affairs. One was an alleged Soviet spy, Margarita Konenkova, ... |