How did Einstein Think?
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How did Einstein Think?
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#2Off-topic: That's a bizarre layout.
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#3For someone who recently read a lot about Einstein and his work and learn what his theory actually accomplishes, this was a great read. I am glad I took 15 minutes of my time to read this paper. Personally I feel it sucks that almost every educated person can recollect his famous equation but a small fraction actually know what it is all about and how his work changed our understanding of space and time. I recommend anyone interested to learn more can check out this book by Author James Malcolm Bird , its on amazon [1] and free on google play [2].
[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Theories-Relativity-And-Grav...
[2] - https://play.google.com/store/books/details/James_Malcolm_Bi...
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#4Off-topic: That's a bizarre layout.
It's for this antiquated technology called a "book", where you lay out every other page to the right or left, respectively, to account for this thing that people once called a "margin".
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#5I love how this paper doesn't overreach, but instead carefully admits what we can and can't conclude from the historical evidence.
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#6For someone who recently read a lot about Einstein and his work and learn what his theory actually accomplishes, this was a great read. I am glad I took 15 minutes of my time to read this paper. Personally I feel it sucks that almost every educated person can recollect his famous equation but a small fraction actually know what it is all about and how his work changed our understanding of space and time. I recommend…
You might also appreciate this whimsical approach to Einstein's work:
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#7"Der Urquell aller technischen Errungenschaften ist die göttliche Neugier und der Spieltrieb des bastelnden und grübelnden Forschers und nicht minder die konstruktive Phantasie des technischen Erfinders"
- Albert Einstein
https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/einstein/einstein-at-the-pate...
"He was denied any teaching position from just about every major University in Europe. This was mostly based on the fact that Albert approached Physics as a "New age day dreamer" (e.g.: thought experiments) rather than primarily from mathematical models or experimental insights. One way he dealt with the rejections was through a discussion group he formed with other workers at the Patent office that he self-mockingly named "The Olympia Academy", which met regularly to discuss science and philosophy. They studied the works of Henri Poincaré, Ernst Mach, and David Hume, which influenced his scientific and philosophical outlook."
https://www.quora.com/How-many-patents-did-Albert-Einstein-h...
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#8Off-topic: That's a bizarre layout.
the random pink highlighting is bizarre
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#9For someone who recently read a lot about Einstein and his work and learn what his theory actually accomplishes, this was a great read. I am glad I took 15 minutes of my time to read this paper. Personally I feel it sucks that almost every educated person can recollect his famous equation but a small fraction actually know what it is all about and how his work changed our understanding of space and time. I recommend…
You might also appreciate this whimsical approach to Einstein's work: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_Dreams
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#10Like many people, Einstein's life and work has been fascinating to me, but in comparison to other brilliant scientists of the twentieth century, there are at least a handful if not a dozen or couple of dozen people who were and are equally as intelligent, brilliant, and more prolific.
That said, I find Einstein-worship annoying.
The cultural obsession with Einstein and cult of personality detracts from the reality that scientific achievement, knowledge, intelligence and wisdom all lie on a multi-dimensional spectrum, they aren't innate, and like any skill, mathematics and scientific knowledge can be learned.
Even more so to say that there have been other geniuses at least at the level of Einstein who didn't land in the position of theoretical physics that afforded them the same level impact.
As for special relativity, based on the development of physics and mathematics of the time 1880-1910, I think it was a toss-up who would have discovered it if Einstein had actually fallen off that mountain in Switzerland in grade school and not been save by his classmate.