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To the extent that Einstein was naïve, it was not because he had a benign view of human nature. Having lived in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, there was little chance of that. When the famed photographer Philippe Halsman, who had escaped the Nazis with Einstein’s help, asked whether he thought there would ever be lasting peace, Einstein answered, “No, as long as there will be man, there will be war.” At that moment Halsman clicked his shutter and captured Einstein’s sadly knowing eyes for what became a famous portrait. ~ Page 494 (Einstein, His life and Universe)

1951: He came to look even more like a prophet, with his hair getting longer, his eyes a bit sadder and more weary. His face grew more deeply etched yet somehow more delicate. It showed wisdom and wear but still a vitality. He was dreamy, as he was when a child, but also now serene. ~ Page 519


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 Dinesh
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Initially, physicists didn’t see this as any big deal. Assuming the wave theory of light, they figured that the more intense the light, the greater would be the energy with which the electrons would be chucked from the metals. But it turns out that this is the opposite of what actually happens. . . . . Einstein realized that the observed effects could be explained only by light being made up of particles that interacted with the electrons in the metal. In his model, light consisted of individual quanta (which were alter called photons) that interacted with the metal’s electrons. Each photon carried its own energy. Increasing the intensity of the light increased the number of photons as per unit of time, but the atom energy over photo was the same. Then, a few months later, Einstein was to add to his bonanza year and figured out that light could also be viewed as a wave. Light indeed existed in two realities.

Einstein was unstoppable. He also presented empirical evidence vlidating the reality of the atom, settling the debate over the existence, and gave the thumbs-up to the use of statistical Physics. Putting frosting on the cake, he added the theory of relativity and came up with the famous E = Mc2. . . . . page 166

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The Curies and the girls’ English governess arrived at Zurich in July for two weeks of hiking in the Alps with the Einsteins and their eldest son, ten-year-old Hans Albert. . . .

Eve’s biographer wrote that she “was amused at the way Einstein circulated absentmindedly among the boulders, so deep in conversation [in German] that he walked alongside deep crevasses and toiled up the steep rocks without noticing them. One day the three young people howled with laughter when Einstein suddenly stopped dead, seized Marie’s arm, and demanded, peering intently at her: “You understand, what I need to know is exactly what happens to the passenger in an elevator when it falls into emptiness.’ ‘The imaginary fall in an elecator posed problems of transcendent relativity -- there would be no gravitational pull so they would float -- and he was struggling with the problem of discovering a mathematical entity with which to represent gravitation.”

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