Einstein never contributed to the a-bomb
E = m c2 tell that a little mass can give a lot of energy, when
a nuclear fission (or fusion) proces takes place and therefore atomic
bombs and hydrogen bombs may in certain cases be advantageous to normal
chemical explosives
The fission has after WW2 been profitable for power plants.
The information that double mass give double energy, is as
commonplace for nuclear fuels as for oil or wood.
Without the Einstein having ever been written , said or thought ,
the bomb would have been developed just as fast. Revisionism is needed
on this ridiculous lie, that the theoretical , mathematic science helped
taming the new energy of the atomic nucleus.(only in the engineering of
the design of the reactor, you need advanced math - the rest is about
counting to 238 and adding and subtracting such numbers!)
The important science benefitting mankind and military was done by
Madame Curie and her husbond, Becquerel, Rutherford, Hahn, Otto, Meitner
and Frisch
The rest was engineering, in which Nazis never thought worthwhile
investing heavily.
Allthough the essential breakthrough was done in Berlin 1931 by
Hahn and Meitner, concerning the uran isotope fission, used in the
Hiroshima bomb.
As soon as Curie had isolated Radium from a tonn of pitch mineral,
and the high energy radiation was studied electrically, the bomb
potential was evident, e.g. to Edison(who ensured even before the Hahn
and Meitner results, that taming the new energy was a matter of time
i.e. engineering.).
The theory of relativity was all about philosophy and math, and
helped no practical purpose.
Einstein designed no important laboratory experiments. The
research of Niels Bohr might have had inspirational value, but was
probably not essential either.
The Nazis understood correctly that the socalled
(theoretical-philosophical) "Jew physics" was not likely to benefit the
short war, that they knew that they were forced into - a long war they
would loose - they put priority in tanks and propel planes - gradually
understanding that jet planes and rockets could become advantageous too,
and their science was much more clever than that of USA, but was too
little and too late to influence the outcome of the war.
Therefore they sacked Einstein from the Berlin University as
being incompetent to their purposes,
He had friends at Princeton and got a job there, leaving Germany
1932, (making a short and unimportant visit to Germany 1933 , possibly
to create a myth, that he was in danger, being a Jew - was a "refugee"
escaping to USA!.)
The billions of $ used on Manhattan and Chicago projects was far
beyond what Germans had resources for.
When tecknology was in place, it was used against Japan - nothing
was speeded up because of the PR-letters written to the President of USA
by Einstein.
Playing violin and being clever in humanistic small talk, he was
a great asset to the US governmental marketing of the military
research - adding the stamp of " preferring peace".
It has been written in Danish media, that "Revenge against the
Nazis" was a great talkshow, interview and collumn subject in the end of
WW2 and Einstein suggested killing all Germans - I would be curious
about reliable information about this. The serious governmental plans
about sterilizing all Germans or making them into a stone age
agriculture people with no industry, are well documented(Kauffmann,
Morgenthau).
The quotes below show a media personality with a talent.
Perhaps the wife of Einstein in Europe made the important math of
the Theory of Relativity.
In education he is still being marketed as being as great as
Edison or Faraday - and that "cars would not move without his theory"!
Nobody has ever been able to point out a practical use of any
"research" of his - which is more like philosophy - entertaining to some
people.
GPS is about getting satelites in place by the good old Wernher
von Braun rockets and then good old math. Corrective adjustments because
of Theory of Relativity are not important - and whether the many
adjustments are linked to Relativity-math small talk is not important,
You adjust according to trial and error, and the research in the
deeper reasons of the need of the corrections has made little progress,
nor use..
Albert Einstein German-American mathmatician-philosopher linked
to Physics (1879-1955)
"Does New York stop at this train"Einstein
The most evil is what we DON'T do. Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.Albert Einstein
The witty head, who defined upbringing like this, was not wrong:
whatever is left, when you have forgotten everything you have learned in
school.Albert Einstein
A hundred time every day I remind myself that my inner and outer
life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I
must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have rec
eived.Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions
which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.Albert
Einstein
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures
as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.Albert
Einstein
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is
x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual
flight from wonder.Albert Einstein
Never did Mozart write for eternity, and it is for precisely that
reason that much of what he wrote is for eternity.Albert Einstein
It is impossible to get anywhere ` without sinning against
reason.Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.Albert Einstein
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our
sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of
thought.Albert Einstein
`I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war
fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the
earthwill be killed.'- Albert Einstein
`I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
"God is subtle but he is not malicios" Einstein
"God does not play dice"Einstein
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the
present, but an equation is for eternity" Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness, it is the measels of the
human race. Einstein.
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everyting save our
modes of thinking and we thus drift towards a human catastrophe"
Einstein
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