Posted on 11/24/2015 8:00:17 AM PST by Borges
By the fall of 1915, Albert Einstein was a bit grumpy.
And why not? Cheered on, to his disgust, by most of his Berlin colleagues, Germany had started a ruinous world war. He had split up with his wife, and she had decamped to Switzerland with his sons.
He was living alone. A friend, Janos Plesch, once said, “He sleeps until he is awakened; he stays awake until he is told to go to bed; he will go hungry until he is given something to eat; and then he eats until he is stopped.â€
Worse, he had discovered a fatal flaw in his new theory of gravity, propounded with great fanfare only a couple of years before. And now he no longer had the field to himself. The German mathematician David Hilbert was breathing down his neck.
So Einstein went back to the blackboard. And on Nov. 25, 1915, he set down the equation that rules the universe. As compact and mysterious as a Viking rune, it describes space-time as a kind of sagging mattress where matter and energy, like a heavy sleeper, distort the geometry of the cosmos to produce the effect we call gravity, obliging light beams as well as marbles and falling apples to follow curved paths through space.
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If I hear one more time about something that “changed everything” I am going to throw up.
Your post changed everything for me...
Einstein waited a while for proof of gravity bending light. Astronomers ran all over the planet trying to catch a total eclipse fighting everything from weather to war.
You vomit would change everything.
Things certainly have changed since then.
Nowadays, "scientists" won't wait a while for proof of glowBull warming. They run all over he planet trying to catch a total grant, while fighting anybody telling them anything from facts to real data.
sounds like a Urethra Franklin song.
Yeah, modern theoretical scientists could learn a lot from Einstein.
Isaac Newton was a great scientist, perhaps the greatest of all time. If Newton's view of gravity had been accepted as “settled science”, then Einstein's view never would have been considered, and Einstein himself would have been ignored, even shunned.
And any evidence supporting Einstein would have been cooked to make it appear that Newton was right.
Ain't settled science great?
Well we live in the world where the hard science of the X and Y chromosomes are meaningless indicators of gender.
Could Einstein have been in error? Nah, scientists don’t make mistakes, not even a bunch of them who are in agreement as in global warming.
http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/papers.html
When it comes to science, the fat lady never sings.
There’s really no concept of proof in science. It’s based on evidence.
Yep. Charles Krauthammer is often wrong, but he got this right: If it's science, it's not settled. And if it's settled, it's not science.
Well, his theory really did not change anything. It changed the way we understand some things.
Ahem, I helped him out way back when.
I had to coach him to the answer by stating a=mc2 and what comes after that? b=mc2 and after that? c=mc2 and after that? d=mc2 and after that?
He finally got to E=mc2
He was kinda slow in math....
Then there was this guy. I had to drop an apple onto Isaac Newton’s head before he understood gravity!
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