Posted on 03/07/2019 1:28:03 AM PST by blueplum
Dozens of manuscripts belonging to Albert Einstein, many of them unseen in public before, have been unveiled by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
More than 110 new documents are now on display at the university, marking the 140th anniversary of Einstein's birth.
It was donated by the Crown-Goodman Family Foundation and purchased from a private collector in North Carolina. The manuscripts contain an appendix to Einstein's article on Unified Theory ... The collection includes scientific work by the Nobel Prize winner that has never been published or researched.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Einstein was a genius. His work on Special Relativity, General Relativity, and the Photoelectric Effect...all were awesome.
But even though he lived until 1955, he did nothing of note after 1920. Some geniuses burn out early. I had the same problem. My best scholastic work was done in the 2nd grade.
Einstein was just a Patent Office clerk.
He benefitted from his occupation. If he did not discover E=mc^2, others were around the corner. Einstein had no real formal education to carry him oneward. All discoverers of new formulas were one trick ponies.
The exception was Ben Franklin, the most prolific inventer, who also was a product of his time. Electricity, and its many forms, was waiting to be discovered.
The Science picks the inventor.
I made it to Junior High ...
I remember reading a piece about the grand masters of classical music. It stated that most of them produced their best known works before the age of thirty.
Look at some of the music masters of our own era, and you find the same thing.
That's not to say that all masters burn out at that age. There have been some notable exceptions, but as a rule, most great artists have emptied their quiver by the age of thirty.
My best scholastic work was done in the 2nd grade.
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I was kicked out of kindergarden. It was all uphill for me after that.
“I was kicked out of kindergarten.”
Same here when I couldn’t grasp the concept of Socialism.
” I had the same problem. My best scholastic work was done in the 2nd grade.”
I had a photographic memory until I was 7 then I ran out of film.
What patent clerk would go to Gottingen?
"I forgot to carry the 2..."
“Einstein had no real formal education to carry him oneward. “
Common false Internet rumor. He was well educated including a doctorate’s degree.
Einstein’s Unified Theory was an attempt to unite his galactic scale of physics with the quantum scale of physics. He was striving for one theory to cover everything.
To this end, he developed and refined important mathematics and came to make stunning observations. But he could not quite achieve his goal.
He could not achieve his goal because of a deeper theory dealing with a concept known as ‘Incompleteness’. This theory was advanced by a contemporary of Einstein’s at Princeton, Kurt Goedel.
Goedel’s philosophy underlies theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
Goedel, like Einstein, had suffered under Nazi aggression and came to the USA to the Advanced Institute at Princeton. Einstein became his biggest admirer and made it a habit to walk with Goedel at lunchtime to discuss Goedel’s views of the human mind and its limits in developing scientific theory.
Although Goedel was never as famous as Einstein, he is just as important, perhaps even more important in this era of computing and AI.
LOL
TheNext.
Apparently not TheNext reader of actual history :)
Nor TheNext best authority on all things Einstein :)
“The science picks the inventor”
Nor TheNext producer of witty and logical quotes :)
I think you may have him confused with Edison...
Very true.
He was also greatly boosted early on by his wife who was also a physicist. She needs more coverage.
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