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What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

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Re: What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

vargr616 wrote: post #3

whenever 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 specifically telling him that it is explicitly only about those physical and mechanical facts.

It is like the whole article author tried to apply this idea in the exact way Einstein was annoyed about, perpetuating the same misunderstanding described.

Re: What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

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Post by gradschoolfail »

amunozo wrote: post #2

I use this post to ask a question I just had a bit before: can anyone recommend me an Einstein's biography?

I recommend the closest thing to an autobiography,

The travel diaries of Albert Einstein

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174419/th...

Re: What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

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Post by alberto_ol »

amunozo wrote: post #2

I use this post to ask a question I just had a bit before: can anyone recommend me an Einstein's biography?

If you want a scientific biography, "Subtle is the Lord" by Abraham Pais, but you need a degree in physics to understand many chapters (unfortunately for me a degree in engineering was not enough).

Abraham Pais wrote also "Einstein Lived Here" a non-scientific biography, but I did not read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtle_is_the_Lord

Re: What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]

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Post by vargr616 »

mewpmewp2 wrote: post #4
vargr616 wrote: post #3

whenever 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…

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).

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