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Einstein Has Left the Building
Ant writes to tell us of an interesting editorial by John Horgan that is being run by the New York Times asking "will there ever be another Einstein?". The author looks at why Einstein holds such a hallowed position in public opinion and why it will be so hard for any one physicist to attain the same level of fame today. From the article: "The paradoxical answer, Gleick suggested, is that there are so many brilliant physicists alive today that it has become harder for any individual to stand apart from the pack. In other words, our perception of Einstein as a towering figure is, well, relative."
For amazing geniuses with a staggering IQ of 225 like you, Einstein may be stupid, but for poor low IQ guys like me he was God.
Or, maybe you ARE Einstein Himself ! OH MY GOD !!!
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Your follow-up post is a further demonstration of staggering stupidity or a lack of reading comprehension skills.
XML causes global warming.
Gandhi was a rapid anti-semite. he said "The jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's blade" -Gandhi in 1945. Gandhi was a bad guy, everything you know is wrong. http://www.americanfascistmovement.com/
Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
No modern respectable physics group would admit a pacifist into their conferences or allow them to publish articles in their journals. Pacifists are considered traitors in modern America.
Einstein would probably be on a 'no-fly' list, have his phones and emails tapped by the NSA, and maybe be put in guantanamo or charged with 'spying for the chinese'.
Furhtermore, Einstein worked at the patent office when he wrote his biggest stuff; science used to be a hobby back at the turn of the century, not a multi billion dollar military industrial complex.
He would basically be laughed out of the system.
Then again, he probably would never join the system, considering that he may have said 'if id known what my theories would be used for (atomic weapons) id have become a shoemaker'
On addressing a public meeting in Bombay on September 26, 1896 (Collected Works Volume II, page 74) following his return from South Africa, Gandhi said:
"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness."
(link from Wikipedia)
Kaffir, for those that do not know, is a degrading term used to refer to black people. Ghandi was a racist well.
Of course they'll always be someone that will lay claim to another's ideas like this Jew did.
Unfortunately, for several potential Einstein's, the carrier wasn't interested in taking care of a child, so the fetus was promptly discarded. But hey, it really doesn't matter! (Don't worry, the stem cells were used in a scientific experiment so that little Einstein got to help us anyways!)