Monday, July 24, 2006
Einstein's Memoirs
In case you had not noticed, some of Einstein's personal chronicles have recently appeared and their Url is given by
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/23/albert_einstein_sexf.html
Obviously, I did not know him, but in the past I have met or encountered quite a few people who have. The newly presented chronicles seem to confirm that he was apparently a bit of a ladies man, etc etc. Boeing-boeing, in their post "Albert Einstein, sex-fiend" seem to sum it up, roughly about right, and how I heard it: "It turns out that Einstein talked a lot of trash about fellow scientists and slept around on his wives and mistresses. The letters reveal how Einstein lost most of his Nobel Prize money in bad bond investments on Wall Street ". All rather banal I'm afraid, he was clearly not the guy to go to for other than science.
More technically Palle Yourgrau's "Godel meets Einstein" is probably much more interesting to scientists and mathematicians and Yourgrau also certainly had the inside information.
There is, however, one interesting point overall and that is that whilst I have not seen it said that Einstein could be placed specifically in the common academic category of being a high-functioning Aspergers case, his profile does suggest that such people as Einstein have given science very many unfortunate breaks, and at best epitomise the C.P. Snow 'two cultures' syndrome, not so much because of such matters as religous persuasion, more a high level of banality and a low level of true empathy. But you would find that at the Groucho Club anyway, and artistic pose (with an almost autistic level of true empathy) is practically the name of the game in the culture world.
Briefly, my own hope is that science may even eventually recover from the Einsteins if the world keeps on existing long enough. The likelihood may be that the world will not continue to exist long enough due to global warming and similar factors.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/23/albert_einstein_sexf.html
Obviously, I did not know him, but in the past I have met or encountered quite a few people who have. The newly presented chronicles seem to confirm that he was apparently a bit of a ladies man, etc etc. Boeing-boeing, in their post "Albert Einstein, sex-fiend" seem to sum it up, roughly about right, and how I heard it: "It turns out that Einstein talked a lot of trash about fellow scientists and slept around on his wives and mistresses. The letters reveal how Einstein lost most of his Nobel Prize money in bad bond investments on Wall Street ". All rather banal I'm afraid, he was clearly not the guy to go to for other than science.
More technically Palle Yourgrau's "Godel meets Einstein" is probably much more interesting to scientists and mathematicians and Yourgrau also certainly had the inside information.
There is, however, one interesting point overall and that is that whilst I have not seen it said that Einstein could be placed specifically in the common academic category of being a high-functioning Aspergers case, his profile does suggest that such people as Einstein have given science very many unfortunate breaks, and at best epitomise the C.P. Snow 'two cultures' syndrome, not so much because of such matters as religous persuasion, more a high level of banality and a low level of true empathy. But you would find that at the Groucho Club anyway, and artistic pose (with an almost autistic level of true empathy) is practically the name of the game in the culture world.
Briefly, my own hope is that science may even eventually recover from the Einsteins if the world keeps on existing long enough. The likelihood may be that the world will not continue to exist long enough due to global warming and similar factors.
# posted by uv : 6:55 AM
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