Science is really all about models that work, not about absolute truth.
Would you agree that science is not so much about what is true, but moreso about what is not true?
I mean, better at pointing out the falsehoods than for establishing an absolute truth.
time is wasting the second you are born so what.
Some people believe that time is an illusion
Lunchtime doubly so.
chess.com people talking science can be too painful to witness.
That's nothing, wait till you hear us sing in a choir! xD
I agree it's a good variation.
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Einstein discovered that chess was a waste of time - but also that time is a misperception and an illusion - so it's basically a waste of something that doesn't even exist - I think I could live with that.
This is inaccurate, because one wouldn't be able to make an empirical observation and derive several verified formulas for an object that doesn't exist. Only someone who hasn't thoroughly studied special & general relativity think that Einstein proved time doesn't exist. You also realize quantum physics would disagree with you as well.
Did Albert ever stop beating his wife ? I guess he didnt feel that was a waste of his time ...
Ouch,
Can't believe Einstein supposedly said in the article that he only played chess "once or twice as a boy" why would he have said that? He was an avid chess player, was friends with world champion Emmanuel Lasker who was also a professor of mathmatics, and supposedly even won a game or two off of him out of the many they played.
What up with that "I only played a couple times as a boy" line?
This is what Einstein said. He rarely played chess and certainly was not an "avid player" as Dodger111 claims. He said chess was to stressful. In his off time from work he liked to "relax" and found chess to taxing on his mind. He never said "chess is a waste of time". He simply did not find enjoyment in playing. Also, Einstein was never a Professor of Mathematics but a Professor of Theoretical Physics. So many people in these forums just "make stuff up off the top of their head".
I call BS on this, since by definition one cannot "relax" doing an activity that is stressful.
As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?
As Einstein once quoted chess was a waste of time for him, he only played it to relax from his exhausting studies of physics. Do you think it is a waste?
actually, it's a rare line of the old threads 'is chess a waste of time', Einstein just serving as a novelty.
actually, it's a rare line of the old threads 'is chess a waste of time', Einstein just serving as a novelty.
But if you play chess in a star ship travelling to Andromeda Nebula and back at almost light speed, you'll be wasting much less time. (Or more?)
He was intelligent enough to understand hat chess should be no more than a past time. It is stupid to dedicate many hours to it everyday when there are so many more interesting and productive things to do in life.
He was intelligent enough to understand hat chess should be no more than a past time. It is stupid to dedicate many hours to it everyday when there are so many more interesting and productive things to do in life.
like [insert edit here] practicing on making babies...IJS
To be precise, the scientific method ensures that well-established laws can only be shown to be not as general or as precise as they could be rather than being "refuted". The reason is that they remain as accurate as they have been before being refined, in the domains in which they have been tested. Science is really all about models that work, not about absolute truth. Eg Newton's laws are not the most precise models available to physicists (not to mention engineers and many others), but they remain the most useful (and ideal) under almost all circumstances.