Posted on 03/12/2010 2:23:20 PM PST by Niuhuru
The original manuscript of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking theory of relativity has gone on display in its entirety for the first time.
Einstein's 46-page handwritten explanation of his general theory of relativity is being shown at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.
In the manuscript, which helps explain everything from black holes to the Big Bang and contains the famous equation of E=MC², Einstein demonstrates an expanding universe and shows how gravity can bend space and time.
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O...M...G... for what it is, that was amazing. And now I have to waste the rest of the weekend watching every other H2G2 item on YouTube.
Seen H2G2? Heck, I had the original radio program memorized at one point (all 6 hours), read the books several times, read the scripts, seen both the BBC and movie versions, and drop obscure quotes from it on a regular basis.
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
“It hung in the air much like bricks don’t.”
“I never did get the hang of Thursdays...”
LOL
I’ll bet you have also seen every episode of ‘Dr. Who’ and ‘Are You Being Served?’. (I’m physically Mr. Grace, but I think I’m Dr. Who, LOL.)
How about ‘Yes, Minister’, ‘Fawlty Towers’, ‘Benny Hill’, and ‘Monty Python’?
“With all due respect to a great man, Einstein was first and foremost, a mathematician.”
That is incorrect. Albert Einstein was a brilliant physicist who figured things out without math through his legendary thought experiments; and then got help from his mathematician friends such as Marcel Grossmann and Tullio Levi-Civita to turn his ideas into rigorous theories.
The Bumblebee story is NOT an urban-legend.
Einstein was a mathematician that later got into physics.
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It actually is a myth.
“The rumor probably started in the 1930s with students of the noted aerodynamicist Ludwig Prandtl at Göttingen,” she said. “That was a time when we were just beginning to think we understood aerodynamic principles, as applied to fixed-wing aircraft, but scientists recognized their limitations in applying the principles to the birds and insects and other creatures in the natural world.
“I’m sure no one, including the bees, seriously doubted that insects can fly,” she said. “Now we’re beginning to understand why.”
http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/00/3.30.00/insect_flight.html
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