Sunday, December 20, 2009

Brain or Insane: Einstein's Genius

Three papers in a year. Whoever thought that a simple clerk in the patent office would be the mastermind behind 3 groundbreaking discoveries that would shape the way physics would be looked at today and in the future: a universal speed limit, a packaging of energy, and a statistical factor. A few years later, he obliterated a universally accepted theory on an everyday phenomenon known as gravity. With regards to his gravitational theory, he didn't come up with the theory to explain experimental results and deviations: he just sat their and thought. Just like how he thought about what the world like if he traveled at the speed of light.

As I sit here and study for my Physics 390 final exam tomorrow, I felt that I should express the respect that I have for this man. Yes some people look at his accomplishments and tag it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yea, that's what happens when blatant idiots try to analyze the mind of a genius: aka politicians and news/media pundits with zero knowledge in the sciences or how anything actually works. What have they done for our world except brainwash a generation into following every new trend and empty their pockets on worthless tokens? I might be offending a few people here, but deal with it.

Here's to a genius, a mogul, a good man. Here's to Albert Einstein.