whenever people say that modern journalists are bad and nobody knows how to write anymore, i'll show them this article
Clearly modern journalists learned from their old masters.
What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]
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#12I use this post to ask a question I just had a bit before: can anyone recommend me an Einstein's biography?
You should watch season one of "Genius" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5673782/) docuseries which is quite an accurate life events (professional as well as personal) of Einstein
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#13I use this post to ask a question I just had a bit before: can anyone recommend me an Einstein's biography?
Not a biography but I like Einstein's book "Evolution of physics". It is supposed to be popular scifi book, and covers same topics as high school physics for layman. But, it is still good to hear his perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Physics-Albert-Einstein/dp/...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean that it is just as bad if not more, right? Because it is making Einstein out to be some sort of rebel like who wants things to be "relative" as if it is a religion or philosophy of some sort. Relativity is just what he discovered, not some ideology he set out to prove or invented. Then the author goes on to try and apply this relativity to all aspects of the world, try to make puns on it despite Einstein spe…
exactly, plus the author's warped understanding, like einstein reinventing the wheel for every equation to make it "more" perfect, whatever that means; or in multiple instances, drawing up conclusions and asking them, or presenting these as facts in the article. or one article being split on 5 pages so I can see some ads in-between (not really the author's fault there though).
I actually didn't realize the article went on after the ad.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Abraham Pais' if you know physics.
How much physics? Is undergrad enough or do you need to actually know GR?
The more you know, the more fun the book is.
At times the going is tough even if you are a physics professor, because Pais accurately captures the process of discovery which was often messy with unfamiliar equations, strange logical jumps, or subtle mistakes.
I would not recommend the book unless you have taken courses in quantum mechanics, statistical physics and general relativity.
(Historically quantum mechanics and statistical physics were developed together, even though now we see one as more fundamental than the other.)
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#17whenever people say that modern journalists are bad and nobody knows how to write anymore, i'll show them this article
You mean that it is just as bad if not more, right? Because it is making Einstein out to be some sort of rebel like who wants things to be "relative" as if it is a religion or philosophy of some sort. Relativity is just what he discovered, not some ideology he set out to prove or invented. Then the author goes on to try and apply this relativity to all aspects of the world, try to make puns on it despite Einstein spe…
There are serious allegations that Einstein stole the work of Henri Poincaré and Hermann Minkowski because he had access and the right to review their work before anyone else did.
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#18> His fame may outlive Foch and Ludendorff, Wilson and Clemenceau.
Funny to think how this has aged since 1915. Over a century later Einstein is an almost universally known figure. The others on this list are, particularly outside of France, names that I would not expect the median person to be able to say something interesting about.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean that it is just as bad if not more, right? Because it is making Einstein out to be some sort of rebel like who wants things to be "relative" as if it is a religion or philosophy of some sort. Relativity is just what he discovered, not some ideology he set out to prove or invented. Then the author goes on to try and apply this relativity to all aspects of the world, try to make puns on it despite Einstein spe…
There are serious allegations that Einstein stole the work of Henri Poincaré and Hermann Minkowski because he had access and the right to review their work before anyone else did.
It is well known and absolutely not a secret that Einstein "stole" from fellow scientists and mathematicians. That's the whole "shoulders of giants" thing and how science typically works. If you study relativity, you will stumble upon the names of Poincaré (Poincaré group) and Minkowski (Minkowski metric) as well as others, like Lorenz (Lorenz transformation).
What Einstein is credited for is applying all these maths to the real world, coming up with a theory that is based on observations and testable.
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#20The thing that jumps out to me is how well read Einstein is, some of the modern day scientists could do with a much broader education. CP Snow's two cultures argument seems more relevant now than ever.