Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:41:22 -0500 Message-ID: <62CB71C2.7046@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 17:41:38 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Organization: The Starmaker Organization X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Albert Einstein drew a straight line References: <62A55A82.6732@ix.netcom.com> <62AE2D7C.52CD@ix.netcom.com> <62B1F184.5E34@ix.netcom.com> <62B6A6DE.6458@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220710-4, 07/10/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 42 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-THTCnKrBgRlRhRleS90TH6mLczaF2VjnHDXIv7wqkJKI709Zvg6Qvmj5XCHC9T/elhkXmtNa7rSS7gu!M8BSWw7gtheXvwyuUaSJAsAHpFG2/3HXJyeUVxW6tecfjb4+0J6Jtfr999WqgvA3NSxHnwRpKIfv!ZLLYVUeHtNQ= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3331 X-Received-Bytes: 3422 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:588231 whodat wrote: > > On 7/10/2022 3:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > Here is another straight line drawn by Albert Einstein himself... > > > > "If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my > > formula in 1905." - Albert Einstein > > There is so much made-up crap posted on Usenet that if you're going to > quote someone, anyone, like you claim to here, the only proper way to do > it is to cite one or more sources for the statement. > > I won't accept what you have posted without at least two apparently > reliable sources. There's too much anti-Einstein crap posted here to > simply accept your posting without something more. > > After the A bomb was used, Albert Einstein did state his regret: > > “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic > bomb, I would never have lifted a finger.” > > https://time.com/5641891/einstein-szilard-letter/ > > For the moment I accept Time as a reliable source, although that could > change. > > [...] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22If+I+had+foreseen+Hiroshima+and+Nagasaki,+I+would+have+torn+up+my+formula+in+1905.%22&hl=en&gbv=2&sxsrf=ALiCzsbZ9OW4DJiF5RWZCgAHf5gkwViStA:1657499724062&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP4pHSy-_4AhVLj2oFHZZQCokQ_AUICygG https://books.google.com/books?newbks=0&id=0isgAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22If+I+had+foreseen+Hiroshima+and+Nagasaki%2C+I+would+have+torn+up+my++formula+in+1905.%22+ https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQsFEAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA238&dq=%22If+I+had+foreseen+Hiroshima+and+Nagasaki,+I+would+have+torn+up+my+formula+in+1905.%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22If%20I%20had%20foreseen%20Hiroshima%20and%20Nagasaki%2C%20I%20would%20have%20torn%20up%20my%20formula%20in%201905.%22&f=false -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.