Albert Einstein

On Albert Einstein's Birthday, Here Are Some Interesting Facts About The Man Who Shaped Modern Physi

... K). At the age of 16, he had failed the entrance exam to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. (Photo: AFP | Graphics: Vijesh CK). Einstein could have also become the President of Israel. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died in 1952, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined. (Photo: AP | Graphics: Vijesh CK). Albert Einstein was a good violinist. He enjoyed sailing but could not swim, and hated wearing socks, they say. He was an undisputed genius who was not just a brooding scientist but a campaigner for peace and a well-respected voice of reason. (Photo: Youtube screengrab | Graphics: Vijesh CK ). His first wife Mileva Maric gave birth to their daughter Lieserl in 1902, a year before they married, making her in the eyes of society an illegitimate child. What became of Lieserl is unknown. Later, Einstein went on to marry his cousin Elsa, after divorcing his first wife. (Photo: Wikimedia/commons |Graphics: Vijesh CK). Truly great minds are also great humanitarians. Albert Einstein stood against the discrimination ...

Mathematical Fun And Birthday Of Albert Einstein

... films ranging from "Alfie" to "Get Carter" and "Hannah and Her Sisters.". Sci-fi and comic book fans will know Caine from his appearances in the futuristic epic " Interstellar ," the mind-bending " Inception " and the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman reboot films. Caine put his own spin on the role of Bruce Wayne's loyal butler Alfred. Photo by: Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET. 1994: Linux kernel 1.0.0. Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds first introduced his young open-source creation to the world in 1991, but the Linux kernel 1.0.0 release arrived on March 14, 1994. Think of the kernel as the core of the operating system. This release signaled a groundswell of development support from programmers. Linux kernel 1.0.0 involved 176,250 lines of code. Compare that with 1991's version 0.01 with its 10,239 lines of code. Photo by: Linux Foundation. 1995: 13 people in space. March 14, 1995 is a notable date in space history since it marks the first time 13 people found themselves in orbit at the same time. It took a combination of NASA space ...

Albert Einstein's Surprising Thoughts On The Meaning Of Life

... to be religious. You ask: Does it many any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life,” wrote Einstein. Was Einstein himself religious? Raised by secular Jewish parents, he had complex and evolving spiritual thoughts. He generally seemed to be open to the possibility of the scientific impulse and religious thoughts coexisting. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind," said Einstein in his 1954 essay on science and religion. Some (including the scientist himself) have called Einstein’s spiritual views as pantheism, largely influenced by the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Pantheists see God as existing but abstract, equating all of reality with divinity. They also reject a specific personal God or a god that is somehow endowed with human attributes. Himself a famous atheist, Richard Dawkins calls Einstein's pantheism a “sexed-up atheism,” but other scholars point to the fact that Einstein did seem to believe in a supernatural intelligence that’s beyond the physical world. He referred to it in ...

Daily What?! Albert Einstein’s Eyeballs Are Stored In A Safety Deposit Box In Nyc

... purposes. Throughout his life, Einstein actively avoided celebrity and idolatry using his fame only to help others (like freely signing letters knowing his signature would be sold, says Izzy Kazdin , the executive director of the Historical Society of Princeton). As Burrell also writes, Einstein had specific instructions for his remains: “cremate them, and scatter the ashes secretly in order to discourage idolaters.”. Albert Einstein’s House at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, where he lived starting in 1935. Clearly the opposite has happened. Harvey preserved Einstein’s brain (dividing it somewhere between 170 and over 200 parts), while also removing his eyeballs, which he gifted to Einstein’s eye doctor, Henry Abrams. Einstein had been his patient since 1939 , upon the request of a neighbor in Princeton. The two would become confidants and activists together, spending time in conversation in Einstein’s house on Mercer Street and fundraising on behalf of Israel Bonds and the United Jewish Appeal. ...

All Shook Up' Jukebox Musical Performance At Albert Einstein High School

... and get "All Shook Up" at this bluesy and raucous musical about mix-ups, mayhem, and love above all! Based on the Shakespearean classic "Twelfth Night" and the hit music of Elvis Presley, with a book written by Joe Di Pietro, this hip-swiveling jukebox musical tells the story of Chad, a rollicking roustabout who arrives in a dreary town to shake things up. Upon his arrival, he shows the people the power of love and music, and, soon enough, love, dancing, and music abound. The show made a brief appearance on Broadway, opening in March of 2005 and closing six months later in September, but it has appeared in regional, college, and school theatres all over the US, as well as in the UK in a June 2015 tour. With intense choreography, difficult vocals that stray from the traditional musical theatre sound, and a swirling story line ...

Did Einstein Say 'i Fear The Day That Technology Will Surpass Our Human Interaction

... Remember your humanity and forget the rest. Einstein’s forebodings about scientific advancement devoid of human values would appear to lend credence to another reflection — or perhaps it’s more of a prophecy — ;which is usually phrased something like this. I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. For obvious reasons, this quote has become immensely popular on the Internet, where it is often accompanied by images showing young people transfixed by smartphones or other electronic devices (the Daily Mail web site concocted an entire feature  around it in 2015, for example). The message isn’t subtle: Einstein was right; that day is here — behold the generation of idiots. The thing is, as best we can tell the quote is a fabrication, and one of quite recent origin, at that. Not only is there no evidence that Einstein said or wrote anything of the kind, but there appear to be no published instances of it prior to 2012. A similar, shorter quote attributed to Einstein can be found in some sources, though its authenticity is in question, as well. It’s become appallingly clear that our ...

It Happened To North Forker Albert Einstein In Berlin

... left with them. Later, Einstein told his wife, Elsa, “Look long on this place, for you will not see it again anytime soon.”. They fled to America. Much later, Einstein spent the summer of 1939 in a small cottage on the North Fork of Long Island, where he worked on his theories and, famously, wrote a letter to President Roosevelt , urging him to authorize scientists to create an atomic bomb. Safe on the East End, Einstein enjoyed sailing in his catboat in Peconic Bay and playing classical music on his violin with a local string quartet that met in one or another of their homes once a week. Nassau Point, Einstein’s home, was and is just a few miles from the meeting of terrified people talking about the new immigration guidelines in the Greenport auditorium Thursday night. * * *. “Guidelines have changed,” Worth told me. “In the earlier guidelines, not all people without status were a priority for removal. Only new arrivals, gang members, terrorists or people with significant criminal histories were. Now the priorities have been vastly expanded to include anyone who has ever committed any crime, no matter how minor, anyone who has been ...

Albert Einstein, Vladimir Putin, And Gordon Gekko

... I can’t immediately get around to everyone. Okay, let’s dive into the electronic mailbag. Cleaner modes of transportation…. “I’m convinced that electric cars are the wave of the future. They run on lithium batteries, so do you think lithium stocks are a good idea right now?” — Alan G. I wrote about lithium in the February 15 issue (Here’s Your Chance to Invest in “The New Gasoline”). The silver-white metal is used to create heat-resistant glass, ceramics and lubricants. The biggest growth driver for lithium is the burgeoning demand for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla (NSDQ: TSLA) has indicated that he seeks a lithium supply to fill enough batteries to power 500,000 of the company’s electric vehicles per year by 2020. Demand from clean transportation is a powerful tailwind for lithium-related companies, especially mining operations. However, you should ...

This Is How The Number 3.14 Got The Name 'pi

... detail and more successfully, by Fibonacci in the early 13 th century, Europe was slow to adopt it, hampering progress in both science and commerce.". Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter. Ancient research on real numbers likely "didn’t get improved upon until the age of Newton," says Conway. Sir Isaac Newton recorded 16 digits of pi in 1665, later admitting that he was "ashamed" of how long he had worked on the computations, as it meant that he had "no other business at the time," per the MAA. It was not until the 18 th century — about two millennia after the significance of the number 3.14 was first calculated by Archimedes — that the name "pi" was first used to denote the number. In other words, the Greek letter used to represent the idea was not actually picked by the Ancient Greeks who discovered it. British mathematician William Jones came up with the Greek letter and symbol for the figure in 1706, and it was popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard ...

5 Fast Facts You Need To Know

... 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999. Number __link__ showed that it is possible to get to 12.1 trillion digits of Pi. For most of us though, it’s OK to just use 3.14159. As Smithsonian Mag notes , Chao Lu couldn’t just stop there. The Chinese graduate student set a world record for reciting 67,980 digits of pi in 24 hours and four minutes. No more that 15 seconds could be between each letter. In interview with the Pi World Ranking List , Chao said that he didn’t take any breaks because of the rules set by the Guinness World Records. He said it took him a year to memorize all the digits. “It is based on many traditional techniques of memorizing. I just did some improvement,” he said when asked how he could have memorized all those digits. “It is difficult for me to explain it in English because of my poor English. And it has some relationship with Chinese language. I haven’t given it a special name yet. And now I am going ...

The Story Of Philipp Lenard And Albert Einstein

... Einstein’s hyper-theoretical and hyper-mathematical approach to physics was exerting a pernicious influence in the field. The time had come, he argued, to restore experimentalism to its proper place. He also launched a malicious attack on Einstein, making little attempt to conceal his antipathy toward Jews. Lenard’s attacks on Einstein became increasingly vitriolic. He compared theoretical physicists to Cubist painters, who in his view were “unable to paint decently.” He lamented the fact that a “Jewish spirit” had come to rule over physics. Of Einstein himself, whose ideas had been accepted by many of the most prominent physicists around the world, Lenard opined, “Just because a goat is born in a stable does not make him a noble thoroughbred.”. Einstein initially attempted to respond to Lenard’s ...