On His 135th Birthday, Einstein is Still Full of Surprises [shared from Weave for Windows Phone]
You would think by now we would have exhausted the mysteries of Albert Einstein. As perhaps the most famous scientist in history, nearly every idea he expressed and every thing he did has been studied, commented on, written about. Yet on his 135th birthday (born March 14, 1879) there are still new details coming out–details that offer insight both into the workings of Einstein's mind, and into the biggest mysteries of the cosmos.
Albert Einstein in 1921, caught (as usual) in mid-thought. (Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer)
One big Einstein shocker was unearthed by Irish cosmologist Cormac O'Rafferty while digging through the Einstein Archives at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There he found a completely overlooked manuscript–undated, but probably from 1931–that showed Einstein trying to create a model of the universe that satisfied both his scientific insights and his philosophical inclinations. The manuscript, entitled "About the Cosmological Problem," envisioned a universe that expands but that (through a clever scientific trick) never really changes.
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You would think by now we would have exhausted the mysteries of Albert Einstein. As perhaps the most famous scientist in history, nearly every idea he expressed and every thing he did has been studied, commented on, written about. Yet on his 135th birthday (born March 14, 1879) there are still new details coming out–details that offer insight both into the workings of Einstein's mind, and into the biggest mysteries of the cosmos.
Albert Einstein in 1921, caught (as usual) in mid-thought. (Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer)
One big Einstein shocker was unearthed by Irish cosmologist Cormac O'Rafferty while digging through the Einstein Archives at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There he found a completely overlooked manuscript–undated, but probably from 1931–that showed Einstein trying to create a model of the universe that satisfied both his scientific insights and his philosophical inclinations. The manuscript, entitled "About the Cosmological Problem," envisioned a universe that expands but that (through a clever scientific trick) never really changes.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverMag/~3/2SWk5GpZ-FM/
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