Einstein
<p>Mar 03, 2015 06:38 PM History Channel: wonderul bio!
This is a total stunner! fantastic video!!!</p>
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Michio Kaku...</p>
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bio of Einstein... beautiful photos and early videos. Zurich Polytechnic;</p>
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1905 is the Miracle Year.</p>
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the photoelectric effect: light is photons (particles)
calculated the size of atoms (from Brownian motion)</p>
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on a bus, racing away from clock tower in Berne... the hands of the clock are frozen.</p>
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Max Planck: editor of Annalen der Physik in Berlin...
spec relativity pub in 1905...</p>
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Maleva: also a physicist... 1903 married;
has a boy in 1904;</p>
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1907 new article on special relativity only moving at constant speeds... in one direction;
he is age 27 in 1907.
creates general relativity...</p>
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still in patent office in 1907....</p>
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falling in a falling elevator... weightless... like gravity has been switched off;</p>
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distortion of space; space pushing the earth toward the sun...</p>
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1911: Univ of Zurich... new post for the first time!!!</p>
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Belgian conference: (by philanthropist Solvay);
Maleva... two kids...</p>
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Berlin: invited by a cousin Elisa (divorced female; mother of two)</p>
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1911: struggling with genl relativity.</p>
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bending of light by a star.... how about the sun...</p>
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300,000X the mass of the earth.</p>
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total solar eclipse: apparent expansion of objects behind it.</p>
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go out to an eclipse and do this! (to astronomers)</p>
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Berlin Observatory... Irwin Freundlich</p>
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will honeymoon near Zurich.</p>
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Freundlich writes to Lick Observatory in San Jose!!!! largest refrac. in the world.
managed by Campbell.</p>
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Kaiser Wilhelm wants to found an Instit. headed by Planck...</p>
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Planck... monocle... Nernst...</p>
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offer: Prof at Univ of Berlin;</p>
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takes a long walk... (was comfortable in Zurich with Maleva)...</p>
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flowers are red... I'll go to Germany... April 1914.</p>
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to join Kaiser Wilhelm Instit to join Fritz Haber... (artif fertilizer) a hero.</p>
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a contract to Maleva.... Haber tries to mediate the marriage...</p>
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I'll give you the money from my Nobel.... she takes the bet.
says goodbye to his boys....</p>
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Freundlich and Campbell to Crimea...</p>
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June 28 1914 Arch Duke Ferdinad is assinated....</p>
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war comes to Frendlich's camp...</p>
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they arrest Freundlich....</p>
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clouds move into Kieav. and has to abandon his eqpt in Kiev.</p>
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WW1... open exchange of ideas... gone...</p>
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Campbell is now dedicated to the eclipse problem...</p>
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but now nation at war... Germans marching...</p>
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Planck and Haber (German and Jewish) but Haber converted and got a commission ...
Haber can I turn Chlorine into a useful weapon... Instit to make poison gas.
Haber... terrible weapons... poison fas... tested on Belgian battlefield...
first time.. devasting cloud... thousands die (seen by Haber)...</p>
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Einstein;; this is grotesque... like an axe in the hands of a madman.</p>
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the manifesto of 93 (scientists).. a betrayal...</p>
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he tries to do a counter-manifesto... only 4 people sign it...
he becomes a pacifist...</p>
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he realizes that the bending of light was one half of what he expected.</p>
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1915 present his Genl Relativ.... unproven and flas in the math...</p>
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The Prussian Academy...</p>
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presents Genl Rel there...</p>
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curved space...</p>
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Goethingen Univ David Hilbert in the audience... (has a solution)
Hilbert is trying to race Einstein to soln of GR.</p>
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(physics is too important to be left to the physicists) Hilbert...</p>
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orbit of mercury tilts like the petals of a flower.</p>
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near perfect match... his eqns match....</p>
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rancor btwn Hilbert and Einstein but Hilbert gives him credit...</p>
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in 1916... pub GR with corrected eqn but needs solar eclipse.</p>
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sick and exhuasted... living in Berlin.... cousin Elisa... cooks for him...</p>
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Arthur Eddington... a quaker at Friends meeting house... head of Cambridge Instit.</p>
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Feb 1916. Wilhelm deSitter sends letter to Eddington...</p>
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Eddington...</p>
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next full eclipse is in 1918... in state of Washington...
Campbell.</p>
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but his eqpt was in Crimea. so he improvises...</p>
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goes to Goldendale Washington...
clouds move in....</p>
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but at the crucial time: they got a clear sky....</p>
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but sun goes thru the valleys on the moon!</p>
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Lick Expedition Favored... NY Times...</p>
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did the star move outward... v specific predictions...</p>
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that gravity curves spacetime....</p>
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Curtis did calculations but did not show deviation...</p>
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3 Empries disintegrate:
1918... Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates....</p>
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Eddinton goes to Africa to photo eclipse in 1919.</p>
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two continents eclipse expts....</p>
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Eddington goes to Principe... 6 weeks at sea... build a telescope and
takes a photo. </p>
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but raining/ clouding... but a few stars appeared ...</p>
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(Matthew Stanley narrates.. looks like Weird Al!)</p>
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Campbell addresses Royal Astron Society....</p>
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but he says Einstein is wrong...
Brit Eddington he might be right...</p>
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five word ... delay publishing Einstein result.. Campbell...</p>
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Eddington.. turns to Newton... your </p>
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1.75 second deflection... is verified...</p>
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Newtons Ideas overthrown...</p>
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but... Eddington was motivated by his peace views...</p>
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a split decision....</p>
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next best eclipse in 1922 in Australia....</p>
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1921... he is age 42.... intl celebrity....
total phenomenon...</p>
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Sept 1922... Wm Campbell goes... </p>
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7 expeditions went... Freundlich; the Brits; the Canadians;</p>
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Campbell gets perfect results...</p>
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92 stars... unambiguous.... he nailed it! the Lick party succeeds!</p>
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Spacetime around the sun was cruving... </p>
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Maleva is still living in Zurich...
1922 fot Nobel for photoelectric effect...
she gets the money and buys apts...</p>
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dies at age 76 in 1955...</p>
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