Slow_pawn wrote:
This game of his was interesting to watch.
Notice how much Einstein liked Relative pins 😁
If Albert Einstein played chess he could have been one of the greatest Chess Player🏤🏡⛲
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Optimissed wrote:
That could only be btickler, of course. A reasonably good communicator but not the brightest bunny in the World. My father had no reason to dislike Einstein and was only reporting to me what associates of Einstein thought about him and then only because I asked my father, for some reason, what they thought of him, when I was about four. I remember being quite surprised because I expected he would say that they looked up to him; but if anything, it was the opposite. When I asked him again, about 60 years later, a couple of years before his death, he had zero recollection of any of it. Another fail for dim-bunny?
What's the matter, now you need to re-respond to posts from January?
You really must feel like you need some kind of a win under your belt. Best pop down to the pub for some darts with someone who's already had a few pints 
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New translation:
"I am fixated on something my father told me that was so important to him that he didn't even remember it, and it gave such a strong negative impression of Einstein that I never bothered to re-assess the conclusion I made at the ripe old age of four..."
I've an idea. Don't make childish posts and no-one'll quote them?
Naturally, I didn't draw any conclusion at four. My father refused to tell me why he was disliked and I only realised what it was about when I became interested in Einstein's marriage to Mileva, ten or 15 years ago. I became interested in Einstein when so many people started quoting him on the net, about fifteen years ago. Obviously, there were a lot of fake quotes. But back then, there was no censorship on the internet whereas now there is, so for instance, you can find an extract from Einstein's legal proposal and affidavit to Mileva but not in full. Everything seems to be held in copyright by the Einstein foundation. I doubt they have a right to any copyright on stuff over a century old but there are ways to remove stuff you dislike from the internet or, at least, fragment the links and hide it.
E=amcc isn't too complicated, is it?
Where a=1
If you square anything like the speed of light with it as big as it is, well that's going to be a big number.
Really quite huge, which shows how many extremely tiny bits of energy there are in a mote of dust. The smaller the bits get, the more there are. I suppose it must be quantised.
Optimissed wrote:
I've an idea. Don't make childish posts and no-one'll quote them?
Excellent advice for you. Please see to it. Kudos on your newfound self awareness...it's a big step.
Oct 11, 2021
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#129
Interesting recollections. No need for name calling. Thanks for sharing. Einstein is one of my heroes. Greatest 20th Century physicist.
I read a few Einstein books in high
Relativity wasn't how he obtained the Nobel prize
He was an avuncular or fatherly type of person.
pam234 wrote:
Interesting recollections. No need for name calling. Thanks for sharing. Einstein is one of my heroes. Greatest 20th Century physicist.
...and Einstein rolls along unblemished.
Also one of my "name 5 people living or dead you would invite to a dinner party" list members. I don't really call anyone my heroes or role models, but if I were so inclined he would be up there.
Oct 11, 2021
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#132
Optimissed wrote:
Naturally, I didn't draw any conclusion at four.
But the 160 IQ?
Even 140's have a high enough cognitive ability to re-examine a conversation
Oct 11, 2021
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#133
I really like Einstein's book on relativity. He really makes it as clear as possible and is a great communicator and teacher, in my opinion.
I have a book of his essays on non-scientific matters which is very interesting (it's called "Out of my later years").
Here is a free copy of his relativity book.
Oct 11, 2021
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rumpelstiltskin04 wrote:
E=amcc isn't too complicated, is it?
Where a=1
If you square anything like the speed of light with it as big as it is, well that's going to be a big number.
It's not a number. It's a dimensioned quantity. As a consequence its value is entirely arbitrary and meaningless - there is a choice of units that will make it any (positive real) value you like.
Oct 11, 2021
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#135
Einstein, Patsy Hendren, Florence Nightingale, Emily Pankhurst, Dame Shirley William's mother,Vera ?
pam234 wrote:
Einstein, Patsy Hendren, Florence Nightingale, Emily Pankhurst, Dame Shirley William's mother,Vera ?
Now I might have to try and remember my final list from years ago. Benjamin Franklin is the first guest invited. Einstein. Da Vinci. Hedi Lamarr. Hmmm...can't remember the 5th.
Might have been Samuel Clemens? Hammurabi? Well, I can always expand the table, I guess.
Hedi Lamarr
And I thought I knew all the greats
rumpelstiltskin04 wrote:
Hedi Lamarr
And I thought I knew all the greats
Her ideas were keys to things like WiFi and GPS, long before many others that get more credit for it.
rumpelstiltskin04 wrote:
I read a few Einstein books in high
Relativity wasn't how he obtained the Nobel prize
He was an avuncular or fatherly type of person.
If you look on the internet, you will find a great deal of incorrect "information". For instance I just found this:
https://www.biography.com/news/einstein-love-life-wives-affairs-letters
which tells us that Mileva Maric was Eintsein's student. Actually they were classmates.
Oct 11, 2021
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#140
Da Vinci made a difference but so did Monet, Manet, Van Gogh., John Constable.
Vera Brittain
No politicians would ever make my list.
Poets would though. Shakespeare,Wordsworth Robert Graves, John Keats and the chap who wrote "Dulce et decorum est" and sadly died a few days before the Armistice, Wilfred Owen. Siegfried Sassoon.
Maybe we are discussing two different documentaries. Do you have a link or title?
I was thinking of a three or four part sequence of videos titled "My Beautiful Brain" in which Polgar was featured in one episode. The scene that replicated what psychologists have learned about pattern recognition in chess involved two diagrams printed on either side of a truck that drove down the street, turned around, and drove back the other way. The first diagram was from an actual game and Polgar was able to reproduce it in a board after seeing it for a few seconds. The other had the pieces randomly placed on the board, and she could not reproduce it.
I used to have a link to a full length YouTube video, but it got taken down at some point. It was a BBC special from many years back on intelligence and how monolithic IQ measurements don't fit the bill. They took a group of accomplished people from a wide variety of careers and tested them. If you run into it posted elsewhere let me know
. Then, of course, like all media they sensationalized and thereby gutted their own premise, and had a "winner" (which was an engineer as I recall).