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1 posted on 03/12/2010 2:23:20 PM PST by Niuhuru
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To: Niuhuru

“contains the famous equation of E=MC²”

Not true, that equation does not appear in the theory of General Relativity or in any other of Einstein’s writings, but is in fact easily derived from another Einstein paper “Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content?”.


2 posted on 03/12/2010 2:48:08 PM PST by ThirdMate
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To: Niuhuru
Actually I think he expressed it as E=mc² for quite awhile, then simplified it for publication.
3 posted on 03/12/2010 2:49:05 PM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: Niuhuru
I heard Werner Heisenberg doodled the uncertainty principle on a cocktail napkin (which was subsequently removed by an over-zealous waitress), and Paul Dirac wrote out the behaviour of fermions in the snow with...well, the original work was destroyed by spring.


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Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

4 posted on 03/12/2010 2:51:43 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Niuhuru

There are still only a handful of people that really understand what Einstein was all about.


5 posted on 03/12/2010 3:06:35 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Niuhuru
With all due respect to a great man, Einstein was first and foremost, a mathematician. Under his influence, the study of Physics changed from one of empirical testing and observation, to one whose theories were being “proven” mathematically. This has set us back at least a hundred years in our learning of how the universe works. Einstein's work towards nuclear energy was great, but it falls short of explaining the universe

His Theory of Relativity (ToR) is a case in point: You should suspect there's something basically wrong when observed phenomena don't fit what the theory says, and physicists keep having to come up with new “fixes” (like “Dark Matter”) to make the theory seem to work.

Prior to Einstein, physicists were starting to explore electrical/magnetic phenomena as the primary forces in the cosmos. While such adherents of an electrical-based universe fell out of favor after the bomb was invented, they never completely died out. Today, with “Relativity” having more and more trouble explaining what we see and measure, physicists are reexamining the electric theory. They're finding that it not only explains/predicts what the ToR does, but also nicely explains the nasty problems that plague Einstein's theory.

For those who say that math models reality, so there's no problem with a math-based theory:

Consider the bumblebee; all modern mathematical models of aerodynamics PROVE it cannot fly. However, the bumblebee, being ignorant of the mathematics of aerodynamics, flys merrily on its way!

6 posted on 03/12/2010 3:07:49 PM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY (It's the spending, Stupid!)
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To: Niuhuru

His work is an affirmation that all cultures are of equal value.

(wink, wink, snort)


10 posted on 03/12/2010 3:57:26 PM PST by 353FMG (What can Islam possibly contribute to the West other than its very destruction?)
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Albert Einstein’s original theory of relativity manuscript
goes on display for the first time
dailymail.co.uk | March 9, 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter
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18 posted on 03/12/2010 8:59:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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19 posted on 03/12/2010 8:59:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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25 posted on 03/13/2010 3:48:03 PM PST by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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