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Some of the world’s greatest scientific minds tell us what they love—and hate—about Einstein
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Posted on 08/20/2004 9:43:04 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist
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To: PatrickHenry; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Something for your ping lists
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posted on
08/20/2004 9:45:12 AM PDT
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RightWingAtheist
(<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>stupid blob</A>)
To: RightWingAtheist
I think Einstein had a sick sense of humor.
To: RightWingAtheist
"He seemed to consider working out the details of the atom and its nucleus more as busywork than as fundamental science."
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To: RightWingAtheist
He was great in that movie with Meg Ryan!
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posted on
08/20/2004 9:48:15 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
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To: coconutt2000
"If you can't explain it so an 8 year old can understand it, you don't understand it".
Is that a quote from him?
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posted on
08/20/2004 9:51:18 AM PDT
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norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: RightWingAtheist
I had heard that near the end of his life, near his 70's, he lamented that everything he had done was wrong.
The implication being he had stumbled on something that outmoded his theory, or simply showed it to be a specialized subset of something bigger.
And no matter, Einstein has been flat out proved wrong on at least one occasion, by J. S. Bell et al.
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posted on
08/20/2004 9:53:22 AM PDT
by
djf
To: norraad
Doesn't sound reasonable, so it's probably not him.
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posted on
08/20/2004 9:58:51 AM PDT
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js1138
(In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
To: norraad
Einstein wrote an article for the Encyclopedia Brittanica explaining in very very basic simple terms the relationship between space and time. I can get through about four paragraphs of the thirty page article before having to give up.
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posted on
08/20/2004 9:59:01 AM PDT
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bayourod
("All boats came to the aid of PCF-3, except one: John Kerry’s boat. Kerry fled. " Van Odell)
To: djf
I prefer to think that Einstein's understanding of relativity was based on an incorrect assumption of certain absolutes... I think that if he was alive today, he'd be leading the way on quantum mechanics.
He had an incredible intuition about the structure of matter and the universe, and he made huge leaps based on small amounts of inormation.
I think that is rather incredible, and he would certainly be a great scientist today if he was alive.
To: RightWingAtheist
I love that Einstein viewed physics in terms of geometry, and let the algebra follow from that, rather than vice-versa.
I hate that Einstein seemed to buy into the misconception that his scientific brilliance conferred upon him some special political insight, and that therefore his opinions on such matters should carry extra weight.
To: djf
I wouldn't trust anything by that Art Bell guy, he was kind of a kook, always interviewing UFO people and all . . .
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:01:24 AM PDT
by
job
("God is not dead nor doth He sleep")
To: coconutt2000
I prefer to think that Einstein's understanding of relativity was based on an incorrect assumption of certain absolutesWhat assumption is that?
To: coconutt2000
Interesting that because of the work of Bell and others, some ideas that were dumped because of general/special relativity are coming back in a certain vogue, even though no scientist would ever publicly admit it.
The quantum flux, the ZPE could be considered to be "ether".
There does indeed seem to be some kind of absolute space/time, ie a true, positive, though possibly not preferred, inertial system.
Whatever the next revelation in physics, it's almost to the point where it will be called a "philosophy", not a "hard science".
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:07:43 AM PDT
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djf
To: job
Not Art.
John Stuart Bell.
I think he might hold the same chair that Newton held.
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:09:36 AM PDT
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djf
To: coconutt2000
prefer to think that Einstein's understanding of relativity was based on an incorrect assumption of certain absolutesDamn the Absolute
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:13:19 AM PDT
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mjp
To: RightWingAtheist
He will always be remembered as the guy who invented "bad hair."
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:14:00 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(If they win, it will be because we've become too soft.)
To: js1138
Actually, although I don't know if it was from him or not, it does indeed sound like something he would say, as he believed very much that you could explain the universe in very simple, elegant terms which anyone, even a child, could understand. He intensely disliked quantum mechanics partly because of the mathematical "noise" which made it so difficult to express in simple terms (Schrodinger, whose wave mechanics turned out be merely a simpler form of matrix mechanics, felt much the same way).
It's often forgotten today that Einstein spent as much of his time trying to explain relativity and basic physics to the general public as he did on physics itself. The Evolution of Physics, which he co-wrote with Leopold Infeld, remains a classic text.
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:14:03 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>stupid blob</A>)
To: RightWingAtheist
Relativity is near its centennial. Physics geeks around the world are preparing to celebrate. New pocket protectors with E=mc2 printed on them or Einstein on a bicycle or something.
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posted on
08/20/2004 10:14:34 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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