Albert Einstein On God: “Nothing More Than the Expression and Product of Human Weakness”

November 27th, 2015 3 Comments

 

With dependable frequency, the religious views of Albert Einstein get revised and re-revised according to some re-discovered or re-interpreted quotation from his scientific work or personal correspondence. It’s not especially surprising that Einstein had a few things to say on the subject. As the pre-eminent theoretical physicist of his age, he spent his days pondering the mysteries of the universe.

THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/

 

 

Albert Einstein and “The New York Times”

Associated Press

In 1904, Albert Einstein, then an obscure young man of 25, could be seen daily in the late afternoon wheeling a baby carriage on the streets of Bern, Switzerland, halting now and then, unmindful of the traffic around him, to scribble down some mathematical symbols in a notebook that shared the carriage with his infant son, also named Albert.

E=mc2: Einstein’s equation that gave birth to the atom bomb

 

Einstein’s theory of mass and energy. Photograph: Observer

Albert Einstein’s famous equation E=mc² for the first time connected the mass of an object with its energy and heralded a new world of physics

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Alok Jha, The Observer, Saturday 5 April 2014

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Albert Einstein / Europeana

                      

 

Ένα πολύ όμορφο φωτογραφικό αφιέρωμα στο μεγάλο επιστήμονα και διανοούμενο της ανθρωπότητας, σε έναν στοχαστή που άνοιξε εντυπωσιακούς δρόμους στη σκέψη του ανθρώπου.

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http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?start=1&query=%22Albert+Einstein%22&rows=12

Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics’ biggest problems / Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein

Eric Weinstein’s theory is the first major challenge to the validity of Albert Einstein’s Field Equations. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

 

Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics’ biggest problems

A physicist has formulated a mathematical theory that purports to explain why the universe works the way it does – and it feels like ‘the answer’

• Marcus du Sautoy

• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 May 2013

A theory of everything … has physics gone too far?

An illustration of the International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed particle accelerator to rival the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.

 

Science’s hunt for a unifying account of how the world works requires us to entertain everything from hidden dimensions to multiple universes. But are these ideas based on fact or fiction? Jim Baggott and Mike Duff debate the limits of physics

• Jim Baggott and Mike Duff

• The Observer, Sunday 16 June 2013
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Einstein and Early X-Rays Feature In New Virtual Exhibition

Handwritten correspondence with Albert Einstein and videos of 1930s operating theatres: these and hundreds of other notable scientific personalities and achievements from the 19th and 20th centuries are now on display in Science and Machines, a new featured collection from The European Library.

Double cylinder press, c. 1890, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, rights reserved – free access

Early X-ray images taken by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, portraits of pioneering researchers Marie and Pierre Curie and photographs of the 1913 Ghent World Fair can also be found among the more than 600 notable maps, letters, journals, videos and photographs selected for the showcase, which was put together through the Europeana Libraries project.