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EINSTEIN: HIS SCIENCE AND HIS LIFE
Einstein Documents and Images:Many displayed for the first time • Physics (Relativity + much more)
• Impact on our World
• Wives, children, mistresses
• McCarthyism, Pacifism + FBI file
• War and The Bomb
• A Unified World Government
• Israel and the Arabs
EINSTEIN: GREAT PHYSICS,
GREAT HUMANITY
SURVEY: WHO WAS EINSTEIN?
Fame
Report Card
Family
My little kitten,
I have just read the most marvelous paper on the
production of cathode rays by ultraviolet light.
EINSTEIN SIMPLIFIED
Part I: His Work/ Implications
LIGHT, MATTER, TIME, ENERGY… AND GRAVITY
molecules: DNA, GENOMICSelectronics: COMPUTERSfission: NUCLEAR POWER,BOMBSfusion: STARSgravity:the UNIVERSE
Part II: His Life:Humanity/Contradictions
*PACIFIST ATOMIC BOMB ……GODFATHER??*SOCIALISTWWII STAUNCHLY
AMERICANHUGE FBI FILE/ANTI-McCARTHY*NOT RELIGIOUSJEWISH,ISRAEL, HEBREW U.*WARM, GENTLE CHAOTIC FAMILY
Special RelativityBrownian Motion Photoelectric Effect}1905
Brownian Motion
Relativity:Space~Time
Energy = MatterGravity = 4D Geometry
The Speed of Light is Constant…FOR ALL OBSERVERS!
Albert Michelson + AE+Millikin at Caltech 1931
Einstein on Relativity
• A pretty girl sits in your lap for an hour-it seems like just a minute
• You sit on a hot stove for a minute- it seems like an hour
• …that’s relativity
EINSTEIN’S GRAVITY-1915
EINSTEIN SIMPLIFIED…BUT NOT TOO MUCH
Observational Proof
The Carnegie Observatories. From left to right: Milton Humason, Edwin Hubble, Charles St. John, Albert Michelson, Albert Einstein,
W. W. Campbell, and Walter Adam
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said 'Let Newton be.' and all was light." (Alexander Pope)
"It did not last: the Devil shouting 'Ho.Let Einstein be.' restored the status quo.
(Sir John Collings Squire)
Gravitational Lensing
•“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." --Albert Einstein
A BLACK HOLE “TEARS”SPACETIME
• BLACK HOLE• OUR SUN
HOW TO DETECT BLACK HOLES
X-ray binary (artist’s impression)
• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
My Favorite sport is sailing…because it’s the sport which requires the least energy
Pacifism/Naziism/the Bomb
Einstein in America
Letter to FDR
FDR Reply
E=mc2 About 1 Kg conversion of matter to energy
E = mc2
Israel/Ben-Gurion
An Offer he RefusedI am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with
objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with
people and to exercise official functions. For these reasons alone I should be unsuited to fulfill the duties of that high office, even if advancing age was not making increasing inroads on my
strength.I am the more distressed over these
circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human
bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the
world.Translation: Albert Einstein Archives, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Association with “subversives”1,800 page FBI file (www.fbi.gov)
Who is this Subversive
?
C. Chaplin’s `City Lights’ January 30, 1931
His Legacy: Explaining the Universe,A “WORK IN PROGRESS”
I have no special talents. I am only passionately
curious. ...