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Ether 18-04-2015 10:35

60 years ago today
 

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sanddrag 18-04-2015 11:01

Re: 60 years ago today
 
As unfortunate as we are to have lost an individual of such brilliance 60 years ago, I am confident his work will be both valued and expanded upon for at least 60 more years to come. :)

rsisk 18-04-2015 11:12

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Help us out that don't know what happened 60 years ago today...

Ether 18-04-2015 11:17

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Originally Posted by rsisk (Post 1473073)
Help us out that don't know what happened 60 years ago today...

Just Google April 18, 1955



Rachel Lim 18-04-2015 11:21

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rsisk (Post 1473073)
Help us out that don't know what happened 60 years ago today...

Spoiler for Google is your friend:

On April 18 1955 Albert Einstein died at Princeton Hospital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUO6CxHtN28
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Death


Aptil 18 is also the day of Paul Revere's "midnight ride" (1775), the SF earthquake (1906), and the day that BBC said there was no news to broadcast and played piano music instead (1930).

Ozuru 18-04-2015 13:32

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Interestingly relevant article: https://medium.com/backchannel/yes-i...n-c3834429e4d5

M1KRONAUT 18-04-2015 21:38

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R.I.P., Einstein... 60 years later...

Ether 18-04-2015 22:38

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Quiz: What was Einstein's last significant contribution to modern physics?

No Googling please...



M1KRONAUT 19-04-2015 14:53

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E = MC^2? I know that was pretty late.

Ether 19-04-2015 15:16

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Quote:

Originally Posted by M1KRONAUT (Post 1473506)
E = MC^2? I know that was pretty late.

No, actually that was published in 1905, Einstein's "Miracle Year" when he first burst on the scene and started the era of modern physics while he was yet a patent clerk.



Caleb Sykes 19-04-2015 15:31

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ether (Post 1473329)


Quiz: What was Einstein's last significant contribution to modern physics?

No Googling please...


He helped to describe a theoretical atomic bomb in early WWII, probably around 1941. I think that he also had some key contributions to the Manhattan project through 1945 as well.

I'm sure he did more after WWII though.

Richard Wallace 19-04-2015 16:14

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No googling.

But I did search CD to find this old post of mine circa 2005, which mentions a book by Anthony Zee titled "An Old Man's Toy".

Gravity. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.

Ether 19-04-2015 16:59

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace (Post 1473539)
No googling.

But I did search CD to find this old post of mine circa 2005, which mentions a book by Anthony Zee titled "An Old Man's Toy".

Ah. Brings back very pleasant memories from years gone by: sitting in the minivan in the late summer and early fall under a shade tree with all the windows, both sliding doors, and the tailgate open, reading Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe ... while my golden retriever keeps a lookout to alert me when my daughter is dismissed from her music/drama class. It doesn't get any better than that.



MechEng83 19-04-2015 23:11

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ether (Post 1473329)



Quiz: What was Einstein's last significant contribution to modern physics?

No Googling please...



Something to do with the cosmological constant? aka his greatest blunder, aka dark energy.

GeeTwo 20-04-2015 14:50

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His only significant scientific (vice humanitarian) contributions after WWII that I can recall were continued arguments in favor of hidden variables and kicking off unified field theory. Hidden variables was later disproven, though he shaped these experiments. Unified field theory is sort of turning into an "Einstein's Last Theorem" sort of problem. I'm not really happy with either answer, but I'll go with "creating Unified Field Theory".


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