Somehow, to me, this post seems strangely appropriate, given that this is the 100th anniversary of Einstein's seminal papers, and (if I may be so conceited!) my 50th post in this blog :-). This year is also the 50th anniversary of Einstein's death.
Albert Einstein is one physicist who defined and dominated the 20th century. His papers on Special and General Relativity, Brownian Motion, and Photoelectric Effect single-handedly transformed our view of the world and how it operates.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The centerpiece of the CD is a 25 minute eulogy to Einstein by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Says Shaw: There are great men who are great men amongst small men, but there are also great men who are great amongst great men, and that is the sort of great man whom you have amongst you here tonight. Men like Einstein are not makers of empires, but they are makers of universes. And when they have made those universes, their hands are unstained by the blood of any human being on earth.
Einstein was a great physicist, but he was a greater humanitarian. One week before his death Einstein signed his last letter. It was a letter to Bertrand Russell in which he agreed that his name should go on a manifesto urging all nations to give up nuclear weapons. It is fitting that one of his last acts was to argue, as he had done all his life, for international peace. Perhaps while celebrating his science, we could also pay tribute to this giant of a man by taking steps to honor his vision of a nuclear-free world, a world he (unwittingly) played such a large part in creating? I sure hope so.
Albert Einstein is one physicist who defined and dominated the 20th century. His papers on Special and General Relativity, Brownian Motion, and Photoelectric Effect single-handedly transformed our view of the world and how it operates.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The centerpiece of the CD is a 25 minute eulogy to Einstein by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Says Shaw: There are great men who are great men amongst small men, but there are also great men who are great amongst great men, and that is the sort of great man whom you have amongst you here tonight. Men like Einstein are not makers of empires, but they are makers of universes. And when they have made those universes, their hands are unstained by the blood of any human being on earth.
Einstein was a great physicist, but he was a greater humanitarian. One week before his death Einstein signed his last letter. It was a letter to Bertrand Russell in which he agreed that his name should go on a manifesto urging all nations to give up nuclear weapons. It is fitting that one of his last acts was to argue, as he had done all his life, for international peace. Perhaps while celebrating his science, we could also pay tribute to this giant of a man by taking steps to honor his vision of a nuclear-free world, a world he (unwittingly) played such a large part in creating? I sure hope so.
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He was also the discoverer of quantum physics, which he detested the idea of.
Because of his deep faith, the very idea of such a fundamentally random set of rules just appalled him.
So much so, he believed that quantum physics was in some way wrong, and much of the latter part of his life was spent trying to find the right answer .. to which we all now know there was no alternate theory to be found...
He was a paradox.. in many ways a man of his times, but also a man light years ahead of the rest of his kind. He spent a lot of time searching for the ultimate truth.. perhaps if he would just believe in quantum mechanics, he could have found a better path, but that was not to be...
Yeah, Akram was good... I always had a problem facing left-handed bowlers.. and his bowling was awesome.
Why are you pissed with your players? I reckon they are the favorites against the Windies.
In that sense, his god was equivalent to the sum total of all laws of nature: and is not a old man with a big stick. But the quote "orderly harmony" is the key here. Einstein was troubled by quantum mechanics because QM is so based on the uncertainty principle.
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