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27 Mar 2005 10:49:12 AM |
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Patently brilliant |
Patently brilliant
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1446139,00.html
It is 100 years since Albert Einstein burst from obscurity with his
world-changing theories. Robin McKie enjoys the best accounts of a
godless failed husband, bohemian pacifist and universal genius
Sunday March 27, 2005
The Observer
One hundred years ago this month, a paper written by an obscure clerk
in the Swiss Patent Office in Berne was posted to the German journal,
Annalen der Physik. Its thesis was simple: light, then reckoned to be
propagated as a wave, was really a stream of individual particles. The
views of the previous century's physicists were simply misguided, its
author implied.
Thus, the prodigious talent of Albert Einstein announced itself,
uncompromisingly, to the world. His study, On a Heuristic Point of View
about the Creation and Conversion of Light, though making little
initial impact, went on to become the cornerstone of quantum mechanics
and the unleashing of atomic energy. Pretty good for a month's
spare-time work.
Robin McKie
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/41d0bbcf64cf08bf
Einstein
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/8ea10049a79a604c
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| User: "Bobby D. Bryant" |
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| Title: Re: Patently brilliant |
27 Mar 2005 01:12:10 PM |
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, "maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
Patently brilliant
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1446139,00.html
It is 100 years since Albert Einstein burst from obscurity with his
world-changing theories. Robin McKie enjoys the best accounts of a
godless failed husband, bohemian pacifist and universal genius
Sunday March 27, 2005
The Observer
One hundred years ago this month, a paper written by an obscure clerk
in the Swiss Patent Office in Berne
, who obtained his Ph.D. later that year,
was posted to the German journal, Annalen der Physik. Its thesis was
simple: light, then reckoned to be propagated as a wave, was really
a stream of individual particles. The views of the previous
century's physicists were simply misguided, its author implied.
Thus, the prodigious talent of Albert Einstein announced itself,
uncompromisingly, to the world. His study, On a Heuristic Point of View
about the Creation and Conversion of Light, though making little
initial impact, went on to become the cornerstone of quantum mechanics
and the unleashing of atomic energy. Pretty good for a month's
spare-time work.
Me intermittently being a Ph.D. candidate with a job unrelated to my
research, I wouldn't call the research my "spare-time" work.
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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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