Comments on: Einstein's papers digitized

By: Alissa Mower Clough

Alissa Mower Clough — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:41:00 +0000

Now, we have to have someone do the Curies. Do you know that the pages are (still) radioactive enough to warrant them being stored in a lead box?

By: Emanuel

Emanuel — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:58:00 +0000

I have seen a photo of a 1905 (Annus Mirabilis) manuscript of the paper. Einstein did not use the letters E=mc^2 at all. I did just google it and found that he started using those letters at least ten years later. His first handwritten and first published version did not even isolate E on one side of the equation as far as I recall. I have seen the paper and English translations on line and am amazed at how short it. Like maybe four pages.

By: ffabian

ffabian — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:59:00 +0000

… and returned to Germany 1914 (living in Berlin) and left 1933 (for obvious reasons).

By: overkill

overkill — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:34:00 +0000

He moved to Switzerland at the age of 16. Anyway, the written language there is still German.

By: Bik Dhaliwal

Bik Dhaliwal — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:55:00 +0000

why has this been kept in the first place?

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:16:00 +0000

If Einstein came up with that kind of ground breaking insight today working for the Wall Street (who hires lots of math geniuses) what would they say?

By: ffabian

ffabian — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:11:00 +0000

Probably Sütterlin script, a form of old German blackletter handwriting.

By: ffabian

ffabian — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:07:00 +0000

… and that’s surprising for you? He was born in Germany and lived most of his adult life there.

By: G. Danken

G. Danken — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:07:00 +0000

aww, it’s in German.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:58:00 +0000

one sec please

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:16:00 +0000

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:56:00 +0000

If you’re in a car going 3.6×10^3 cm/sek, and light travels at 3×10^10 cm/sek, how long does light take to go 3×10^10 cm?

By: memoid

memoid — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:53:00 +0000

That’s because he was scientist.

By: Mr. Spocko

Mr. Spocko — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:12:00 +0000

When Einstein was a child and blurted out in class the wrong answer to a question because he was over thinking the definition of something, like Kilometers per hour, did the person he was talking to say, “Way to go EINSTEIN!”

If he answered a question that was clearly “above” his perceived intelligence did his teacher say, “Who do you think you are, Newton?” (which genius did they use to compare him to?”

If Einstein came up with that kind of ground breaking insight today working for the Wall Street (who hires lots of math geniuses) what would they say?

“That’s very clever, Einstein. That and a three bucks will get you a latte. The question is, “How can you monetize this? How can we use this to work the system

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:06:00 +0000

That is the weirdest cursive capital E I’ve ever seen. It’s like a drawing of a sperm with a dorsal fin.

By: Jeb Adams

Jeb Adams — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:02:00 +0000

Einstein uses CGS! Breaks my heart a little as an SI man, myself. It’s going to make these harder to read and understand for me.