Ah, thats where that "back of the envelope calculations" originate from! But it does not explain what physicits do on front side of envelopes. :=( Georg
Not sure if it was Mt. Wilson or (I think) Mt. Palomar. Einstein said: "If I make a mistake on a piece of paper, I throw it away, zo. If you make a mistake in steel...."
Yet they didn’t mention Mrs. Hubble’s reply being, “However my husband's method serves as a constant reminder that envelops are sometimes not good enough and need to be pushed.” ;-)
Official Truth says General Relativity cannot be more than an effective field theory. Offered in counterpoint are ineffective field theories.
Given cartography, the Shroud of Turin must be a miracle. A kitchen oven can produce Shrouds of Turin at will. Let's have less Kirche and more Küche. GR says opposite shoes obey the Equivalence Principle. Fern-Parallelismus and Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble say they do not. Experiment is theory's waste disposal unit. Somebody should look.
Tnx Bee! I haven't managed to find the source of this well-known story, though I suspect its Baneesh Hoffman Cormac
4:25 PM, December 08, 2011
When Herr Professor Doktor Einstein and his wife visited Mr and Mrs Hubble at Mt Wilson, at one stage the two ladies were left alone to swap confidences. Mrs Hubble pointed at the great telescope and explained that her husband used it “to study the nature of the universe” whereupon Frau Einstein retorted that “my husband does that on the back of an old envelope!”
Submitted by Cormac O' Raifeartaigh. This anecdote is mentioned for example in “The Day We Found the Universe” by Marcia Bartusiak.
posted by Sabine Hossenfelder at 4:00 AM on Dec 8, 2011
"Advent calendar #8: Einstein's old envelopes"
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Ah,
thats where that "back of the envelope
calculations" originate from!
But it does not explain what physicits do on front side of envelopes. :=(
Georg
4:52 AM, December 08, 2011
Not sure if it was Mt. Wilson or (I think) Mt. Palomar. Einstein said: "If I make a mistake on a piece of paper, I throw it away, zo. If you make a mistake in steel...."
7:16 AM, December 08, 2011
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7:32 AM, December 08, 2011
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7:39 AM, December 08, 2011
Hi Bee,
Yet they didn’t mention Mrs. Hubble’s reply being, “However my husband's method serves as a constant reminder that envelops are sometimes not good enough and need to be pushed.” ;-)
Best,
Phil
P.S. Sometimes I need a few cracks at it:-)
7:42 AM, December 08, 2011
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2:07 PM, December 08, 2011
Official Truth says General Relativity cannot be more than an effective field theory. Offered in counterpoint are ineffective field theories.
Given cartography, the Shroud of Turin must be a miracle. A kitchen oven can produce Shrouds of Turin at will. Let's have less Kirche and more Küche. GR says opposite shoes obey the Equivalence Principle. Fern-Parallelismus and Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble say they do not. Experiment is theory's waste disposal unit. Somebody should look.
2:11 PM, December 08, 2011
Tnx Bee!
I haven't managed to find the source of this well-known story, though I suspect its Baneesh Hoffman
Cormac
4:25 PM, December 08, 2011