Einstein's Relativity original documents

[Ondina]

http://www.google.co...YpIY-jRE3Wigd0g

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100307/capt.3159db6b51de40da9753691ff43be182.mideast_israel_palestinians_einstein_manuscript_jrl103.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=AQumn8zawFXjND7F0UL6Rw--

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/einstein.jpeg

http://rowdyboeyink.org/images/316einstein,0.jpg

[tfwall]

Fantastic!

[Mille]

Wonderful!

 

I have read a little of his original articles, and he did a lot more than just the relativity theory. As you may know he did not get the Nobel prize for the relativity theories, but for the photo electric effect. This was a correct decision by the Nobel comittee as the general relativitity theory was not yet proved. The photo electric effect was worth a prize anyway, as a few other things he worked upon. He was a true genious in its original meaning.

 

But the statement in the article that you could almost look over his shoulder when he worked is false. Einstein did not work like that. He thought out everything in his head, he described it as stories and examples and counter examples. It is interesting that with such a time consuming and intuitive was of working he was very productive. What we see is the process of describing his work to others, which is probably the reason why it is possible to follow the process in the first place.

 

Thank you very much for this link!

[Ondina]

The whole document can be found online in bigger detail here : http://www.ilorentz.org/history/Einstein_archive/Einstein_1925_manuscript/

 

Thank you, Mille, for the interesting comments.

[Yuki Onitsura]

My inner geek is throwing confetti and summoning the marching band. Very cool! Thanks for sharing, Ondina.

 

edited to fix typo!

 

Yuki

Edited March 8, 2010 by Yuki Onitsura

[tuintu]

What was his pen/s ?

 

anybody knows ?

[Ondina]

What was his pen/s ?

 

anybody knows ?

 

This is the one with which he wrote the Theory of Relativity: http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/maandobjecten/2002-okt.html

http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/maandobjecten/images2003/vulpeneinstein.jpg and that he presented to his intellectual alter ego ( with, ahem, the permission of his wife) Ehrenfest. http://www.ilorentz.org/history/einstein/einstein.html

From them, what it looks to be a Pelikan 100 or a Regal was always spotted on his pocket vest. A notorious anecdote involving Einstein and the pen occurredhttp://www.profilesinhistory.com/components/com_mtree/img/listings/o/82.jpg

when a reported asked him where he had his lab or work place and he pointed at his pen. I quite like his hand ( and the blue is quite nice).

[Ondina]

Oh, I forgot to mention that the original that he used to write all his ground breaking theories (from 19912 till1921 is a ....Waterman 22 taper).

 

http://www.caspersik...nsteins-vulpen/

Edited March 8, 2010 by Ondina

[macaddicted]

I remember taking my young nephew to Griffith Observatory in LA. We were looking at a display that showed various elements being excited so they showed their color. My nephew asked why the different elements were different colors. I had just finished frosh physics so I opened my mouth to explain the photoelectric effect, made what must have sounded like a quiet groaning noise, and looked for a docent.

 

I hate quantum mechanics.

Edited March 8, 2010 by macaddicted

[DanielB]

Einstein was indeed succesful beyond his famous Theory of Relativity. The manuscript shown above is entitled "Quantum theory of monatomic ideal gases (2nd treatise)". In this series of papers Einstein enunciates the existence of a new state of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, based on the extension of ideas from Bose (an Indian physicist).

[Mille]

What was his pen/s ?

 

anybody knows ?

 

This is the one with which he wrote the Theory of Relativity: http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/maandobjecten/2002-okt.html

http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/maandobjecten/images2003/vulpeneinstein.jpg and that he presented to his intellectual alter ego ( with, ahem, the permission of his wife) Ehrenfest. http://www.ilorentz.org/history/einstein/einstein.html

...

 

Does anyone know how the pen works? What is that thing beside the pen?

Edited March 10, 2010 by Mille

[Johnny Appleseed]

Mille,

 

It is a straight-forward eyedropper. That thing beside the pen is the cap, which is tapered so that it resembles the long taper of a desk pen when it is posted on the back. The little metal thing at the end is an accomodation clip (an add-on clip) that has been placed very low on the cap so that the pocket clip is hanging down below the cap lip. I don't know if that is how he would have carried the pen - it might have been the only way to make it fit in a pocket, or someone might have shoved it down too far at a later time.

 

I understand the question though - when I first saw it I thought it was one of the odd Waterman Pump fillers with a part sticking out. It took me a minute to realize what it was.

 

There are some good pictures of taper-cap Watermen at Vintagepens.com (no afiliation) - look at the 22 in RMHR at the top for a nice picture of one posted, and the 24 with the gold bands a few pens down for a picture of one capped.

 

John