Posted on 03/16/2009 7:34:32 PM PDT by neverdem
Bull.
Logan’s Run anyone?
Einstein was 27 in 1906, but that is not the year the General Theory was published. The Special Theory was proposed in 1905, when Einstein was 26. The General Theory was published in 1916, when he was 37. He made contributions to Physics well after that, mostly as a critic -- but an important one -- of quantum mechanics, a theory he ironically did a great deal to motivate in the first place. I don't think many people appreciate how important the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox and the subsequent clarification of it in Bell's Inequality (or Bell's Theorem) is to the foundational understanding of quantum mechanics. It was published in 1935, when Einstein was 56.
The 130th anniversary of his birthday just passed on Saturday, March 14th.
I knew I had peaked when I was your age, but I hung on until I was 52 to retire. Duh, I am 62 now. Yea social security! But, where the hell did I park my car?
Thanks neverdem. I was trying to tell someone about this, and then forgot what I was talking about.
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