Well, there goes studying the Theory of Relativity.
It is not shocking at all that a 1920’s European would say some negative things about the Chinese in private letters.
They’ll probably say he’s anti-Semite.
However, that’s it. Everyone STOP obeying E = mc2.
Anyone who continues to adhere to said principle will be deemed a xenophobe.
I watched the video and these were rather tame, not offensive and in the context of the time, nearly a hundred years ago, not surprising. SJW drama queens are just looking for the next person, even dead, to trash.
"...Albert Einstein..."
Well, he did call them industrious.
Well that tears it - I’m never voting for him or watching any of his movies ever again!
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The Nazis called Einstein’s work “Jewish science”, and banned the study of it. Today’s Nazis (the radical left) will probably ban Einstein’s work as well. Perhaps they’ll call it “white science”.
Replace “dreary people” with culture where “nail that sticks out is hammered down” and it might be more acceptable.
Einstein could be a jerk. That didn't mean he was the worst person in the world, but he wasn't your buddy either.
Just because he could understand relativity that didn't mean that he'd want to listen to your problems or mine.
Mass energy equivalence is something that can be roughly explained to very young children, and the Special Theory of Relativity can be quantitatively conveyed to any relatively bright person who understands right triangle geometry.
The theoretical knowledge of E=mc2 gets you no closer to a working atomic bomb than you were before you knew about binding energy; building an atomic bomb involves enormous challenges in metallurgy, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, and applied physics about which Einstein knew nothing.
Historically, the title is usually given to Robert Oppenheimer, and "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" to Edward Teller. The former is probably also undeserved, and really belongs to the great Enrico Fermi. The latter title absolutely was warranted, but should be shared with Stanislaw Ulam.
I don’t think Physics is racis’, but who knows what theories lurk out there these daze.
Einstein a humanitarian?
He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
The sheer childishness of judging people from the past by today’s cultural standards is breathtaking. Note that by 2018’s SJW standards, Barack Obama was homophobic in 2008 because he didn’t support gay marriage then.
I don’t read anything remotely racist in the comments contained in the article. It would seem to be simply the honest observations and concerns of someone during that time period with regards to a socially isolated and repressed people.
This is just another Chinese fire drill.
Another case of the error of historical anachronism, judging past figures by the values of the present. Einstein’s views were widespread in the West before WWII. From experience, Churchill had a low view of Muslims, although they have done a pretty poor job of trying to change that image, in contrast to the Chinese and other East Asians.