My boy Einstein's miracle year was 100 years ago. In 1905, he published papers on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, diffusion, and special relativity.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity
-- Albert Einstein

CNN has a nice article covering the legacy of his ideas. It also adds a bit of a personal side to the brilliant scientist, discussing his personal life and relations with women.

Huck

United Kingdom

July 2004

APR 20, 2005 05:08 AM

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity
-- Albert Einstein

now that is fucking suave

Sebilrazen

Minneapolis, MN

November 2004

APR 20, 2005 05:10 AM

Einstein wasn't just the father of modern physics, he also held that mantle for pimpology.

Luis

Preston, ID

February 2004

APR 20, 2005 05:28 AM

I respect that man, even if he was from Jersey.

theseeman

Asheville, NC

December 2002

APR 20, 2005 05:46 AM

Sebilrazen said:
Einstein wasn't just the father of modern physics, he also held that mantle for pimpology.

We must remember that study in pimpology is not easy, but it is necessary.

KellyLynn

I'm lost

September 2003

APR 20, 2005 06:56 AM

Huck said:
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity
-- Albert Einstein

now that is fucking suave

i concur.

i love things like this, where you get to see this huge amazing figures as the real people they are.

decommissioned

Churchs Ferry, ND

January 2003

APR 20, 2005 06:59 AM

Luis said:
I respect that man, even if he was from Jersey.

technically he would be from Germany, not Jersey.

freshprncebelair

Ellicott City, MD

June 2004

APR 20, 2005 08:51 AM

KellyLynn said:

i concur.

i love things like this, where you get to see this huge amazing figures as the real people they are.

He was actually sort of a jerk in real life.

He abandoned his wife and kids early on in life.

Telltale

USA

May 2004

APR 20, 2005 09:51 AM

Well, it didn't help that he was probably mildly autistic. That doesn't exactly help one in social situations.

Telltale

USA

May 2004

APR 20, 2005 09:51 AM

"The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist," he said. "I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me."

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JJ_R0x0rz

I'm lost

October 2003

APR 20, 2005 12:13 PM

JayHawk said:

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that man, was deep.

rickets

Seattle, WA

March 2003

APR 20, 2005 12:16 PM

Brownian motion kicks fucking ass! Seriously. The idea of diffusion as a random walk of particles is pure genius.

FunkySkunk

Gainesville, FL

July 2004

APR 20, 2005 12:56 PM

According to his exclusive audio diary which can only be found on Upright Citizens Brigade, he masturbated too frequently and was ashamed of this fact. He was also mad when all the other professors ate his food and didn't buy any to replace it.

padme

La Mesa, CA

June 2004

APR 20, 2005 01:05 PM

Barely a dozen comments on this great man, and yet the number of comments about "pissing green" are approaching 50. What a fucking world...

theseeman

Asheville, NC

December 2002

APR 20, 2005 01:08 PM

skankzor said:
He was actually sort of a jerk in real life.

He abandoned his wife and kids early on in life.

Would you rather have a nice loving husband or Relativity?

yeas

Pittston, PA

June 2003

APR 20, 2005 01:37 PM

I know it's cliched, but if there was one person from the past I could meet/have dinner with, it would without a doubt be Einstein for me. Great man. We would not be where we are today without him.

Sublimewords

Palm Springs, CA

October 2004

APR 20, 2005 02:18 PM

now a days he would have developed a massive coke habit, and come up with a way to smoke pot when it's wet. I'm sure of it.

Zorgnoff

Alexandria, VA

March 2005

APR 20, 2005 04:35 PM

Ekko said:
Without Einstein, we'd have no Star Trek or Dr Who. And then where would you be? Hmmm?

Moved out of your parents' basement?

Oh, I'm just funnin'!

waldo

I'm lost

June 2004

APR 20, 2005 04:54 PM

NeverBeenHip said:

Ekko said:
Without Einstein, we'd have no Star Trek or Dr Who. And then where would you be? Hmmm?

Moved out of your parents' basement?

Oh, I'm just funnin'!

And never will be.

jholtsnider

I'm lost

February 2004

APR 20, 2005 07:00 PM

Rickets said:
Brownian motion kicks fucking ass! Seriously. The idea of diffusion as a random walk of particles is pure genius.

I remember the first time a professor explained random walk...

"So imagine your buddy is drunk... and he can't tell left from right... and takes constant one meter steps... how long does it take him to get 1 mile away from the bar?"

jholtsnider

I'm lost

February 2004

APR 20, 2005 10:21 PM

Left... right... right... right... left... left... right... left... left... right...

skeptik

New Orleans, LA

February 2004

APR 20, 2005 10:57 PM

slimjim said:

Rickets said:
Brownian motion kicks fucking ass! Seriously. The idea of diffusion as a random walk of particles is pure genius.

Brilliant

llouys

Brazil

August 2003

APR 21, 2005 03:04 AM

JayHawk said:
Well, it didn't help that he was probably mildly autistic. That doesn't exactly help one in social situations.

Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing:

He never learned to drive. He would walk home from his office at Princeton University, sockless and submerged in the pursuit of the "eternal riddle," letting his umbrella rattle against the bars of an iron fence. If his umbrella skipped a bar, he would go back to the beginning of the fence and start over.

Sounds pretty similar to autism or OCD to me.

lowroller

Australia

May 2008

APR 21, 2005 03:23 AM

Props to the man Einstein ... even if for that one quote.

Array

USA

June 2004

APR 24, 2005 07:33 AM

He ... developed attachments to several women who shared his love of music, sailing and world affairs.

One was an alleged Soviet spy, Margarita Konenkova, a Russian Demigr De married to a Greenwich Village sculptor.

Has anyone ever come accross the term "Demigr De" before? I can't find it in any dictionary, and there are only a few uses on the web. Seems to mean something like "person not living in their native land". Any ideas?

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