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Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols

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On 11/20/2015 10:31 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 11/20/15 5:41 AM, dvus wrote:
>> On 11/19/2015 6:54 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJsFsjSWYx0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Albert Einstein did amazing things with General Relativity - but he
>>>>> famously got it wrong when it came to the expansion of the Universe.
>>>>>
>>>>> Einstein's Blackboard: https://youtu.be/KIwpGEvmgvs
>>>>>
>>>>> More relativity videos (with Mike Merrifield): http://bit.ly/Gamma3
>>>>>
>>>>> More long interviews with Ed: http://bit.ly/CopelandGoesLong
>>
>> I watched the first video and was left wondering why Einstein was so
>> invested in proving the Universe was static. He proved himself quite
>> able to think outside the box in most endeavors with the exception of
>> this particular question.
>>
>
>    I does seem mysterious the effort to defend a static universe. It also
>    is curious that after 1931, Einstein pretty much abandoned doing
>    anything with general relativity.

The video indicated he was so immersed in calculating a GUT that he had 
no time for other work.

>    I guess we should be satisfied the Einstein gave us a fruitful
>    relativity theory and contributed in many ways to the quantum
>    mechanics.

No doubt about it.

-- 
dvus

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Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 17:03 -0600
  Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-19 23:54 +0000
    Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 19:23 -0600
      Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-20 02:45 +0000
    Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-20 06:41 -0500
      Re: How could Einstein have known that, back in 1917 ? ! Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 06:06 -0800
      Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 09:31 -0600
        Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 16:59 +0100
          Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 10:03 -0600
          Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-11-21 11:51 -0500
        Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-20 15:24 -0500
        Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-20 14:04 -0800
          Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 17:06 -0600
      Re: How could Einstein have known that, back in 1917 ? ! "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 13:32 -0800
      Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-11-21 11:36 -0500
      Re: How could Einstein have known that, back in 1917 ? ! Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-11-21 11:47 -0500
  Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-11-20 16:17 -0500
    Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 17:07 -0600
  Re: Einstein's Famous Blunder - Sixty Symbols "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 23:26 -0800

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