Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered

vinlud writes "The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics. The German-language manuscript is titled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas," and is dated December 1924. It is considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs. High-resolution photographs of the 16-page manuscript are posted on the institute's web site."

Comments

Re:One of his last breakthroughs

[larry bagina]

He developed his final theory of relativity.

Marrying your cousin.

Re:Other than

[Rinzai]

You know, 60 years after the fact, such recriminations are useless. In fact, they just border on the petty and pointless. It's like a little sister whining about some pony she didn't get on her 12th birthday.

And, as far as it goes, consider that we didn't start the damned war. Were the Axis powers somehow not evil for starting the war? If you're a combatant in a war, your job is to win. By whatever means necessary, and, of course, by inflicting as much damage as possible.

It isn't chess, it isn't football, and it isn't goddamned tiddley-winks. It's war, it's not pretty, and it wasn't intended to be pretty.

It's about time the soc-lib contingent threw away the Nintendo cartridges and started to grow up just a little.

Re:For Japanese attrocities in China ...

[drgonzo59]

Can you understand in the little brain of yours that I was talking about the perception of the Japanese at that time.

To make it easier for you, let's say you have commited murder or some other crime but served your time. Well then you apply for a job in some office, but they refuse to hire you. Why? Because you have a pretty bad reputation. Legally you are acquited but as long as you live, you'll probably have a difficulty getting a good job. If they hire you and you make some small mistake, they'll fire you faster than someone that never had a criminal history. Why? Because you have made a bad reputation for yourself.

The Japanese have made a pretty bad reputation for themselves, by attacking US without declaring the war (well, the telegram didn't arrive in time), they performed horrible attrocities in China. _The world_, especially the American government, had disgust with everything Japanese, therefore they build those internment camps, and I said that it also played a major role in deciding whether to drop the bomb or not. Had the Japanese telegram arrived in time, had they been less expansionistic and brutal with thier neighbours, perhaps they would not have been bombed.

I didn't say it was right or wrong from my point of view, I was presenting what I think the American point of was at the time. You can understand it and agree with it, or you can disagree with it.

By your own logic al qaeda should attack civilians for the military acts of some US soldiers. Wait...didn't they already do that? Have you heard of 9/11? (...it must be the little brain again...). Do you think it worked? I think it worked great for Al Qaeda! Some nutjobs with box cutters, killed so many people, and most of all sent the world and the US into panic and chronic fear and paranoia. I am not saying they are right to do it, I didn't say the US was right to do it. All I did is present what I think was the point of view and the actions of Japanese and of the Americans at the time. Attacking civilians works, I don't think it is right, but it works. If you are the side attacking, you think it is right, if you are being attacked, the other side is a monster commiting attrocities.

If you want to talk about objective and absolute "right" and "wrong" then we'll just end up talking about god, reality and existense.