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60 years ago today
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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.
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Help us out that don't know what happened 60 years ago today...
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Re: 60 years ago today
Just Google April 18, 1955
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Spoiler for Google is your friend:
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). Last edited by Rachel Lim : 18-04-2015 at 11:25. |
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Interestingly relevant article: https://medium.com/backchannel/yes-i...n-c3834429e4d5
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R.I.P., Einstein... 60 years later...
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Quiz: What was Einstein's last significant contribution to modern physics? No Googling please... |
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E = MC^2? I know that was pretty late.
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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.
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I'm sure he did more after WWII though. |
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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. |
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Something to do with the cosmological constant? aka his greatest blunder, aka dark energy.
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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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