In the 1940s, while seated with his biographer, Albert Einstein said: (1) "I could never understand why the theory of relativity, with its complex concepts and problems so far removed, so far, from practical life, still receives-- For a long time--a loud, lively, buzzing ring in public circles, I've never heard a really convincing answer to that question," then wonders with great amazement in an interview with a New York Times reporter once, "Why doesn't anyone understand me, but, on Even so, does everyone love me?!"
It was really strange, because no one knows exactly why Albert Einstein is so famous, and if there are some interpretations, but in the end, an ordinary citizen will not care about that huge qualitative leap in the way physics understands abstract terms such as time, space and gravity, and of course no one will be strong, Even if he is a university student from the Department of Physics, he can achieve a clear understanding of the mechanics of the theory of relativity, both at a more profound level, except with some practice.
However, when Albert Einstein and his wife appeared, as guests of the world actor, Charlie Chaplin, at the premiere of City Lights in Los Angeles in 1931, the two companions had to make their way very slowly through the crowds coming upon them wanting to throw Greetings, perhaps taking a precious signature from the most famous scientist on earth, so that Chaplin said to Albert Einstein that day (2): "They cheer for me because they understand me, and they cheer for you because no one understands you."
Even after the death of Albert Einstein, on April 18, 1955, the man's fame escalated until he became, with his frizzy hair and famous sarcastic comments, a model of genius and unfamiliar ideas. With the passage of time, up to the contemporary period of our history, Einstein had become a huge legend that did not know the true from the fake. He turned into a genius, complete with magic, who never made mistakes and had no need to make any effort to get what he wanted. In fact, he did not protest Albert for that period after his death to be in that picture in front of his audience, people in his life treated him as something beyond nature, so that a school girl wrote him a letter once saying: “Are you real?” (3).
Because of all of that, Einstein was also one of the most people to whom, in their lives or until now, words or actions were attributed to them that never happened. Take, for example, those news that spread in the Arab world, and the whole world, for many decades, to say about the theory of relativity that it is It is so difficult that only ten scientists in the whole world understood it, and some added that one of these was the famous Egyptian physicist "Mustafa Mosharafa", and in another form of that news, some indicated that Arthur Eddington was once asked if there were only three who understood. General theory of relativity and he replied: "And who is the third?"
Of course, that is not true, and Einstein answered this question more than once, and told one of the interviewees that (4) "every time I go anywhere someone asks me about this topic," and then continues: "This is ridiculous. Anyone can He has enough training in the sciences to understand the theory easily, and there is nothing surprising or mysterious about it, it is very easy to train the minds of students in this type of physics, and there are a lot of these things in the United States."
And that, in fact, is an important and remarkable point. Albert Einstein will of course be upset, and accuse you of absurdity, when you tell him that only ten people understand his theory, because the scientific community does not work in the manner of the literary medium, for example, so that the ambiguity that surrounds the text needs interpretation and speculation from The interpreters accepted, but ambiguity in scientific research, on the contrary, would mean that your theory is incomprehensible, and incomprehensible is equal, in some degree, to being incorrect, the theory must be understandable to specialists, so that it can be evaluated, and that is what dismayed Albert about this subject.
Where any physics student, by putting some effort into studying advanced courses, in physics and mathematics, can actually be able to understand the theory of relativity with the degree of depth that Albert Einstein had at the time, but let us here explain that the theory of relativity became after Einstein more than just a theory, It has become a broad research program that contains a number of delicate disciplines within it, in other words, what physicists now know, and what they study in doctoral and master’s programs, has surpassed much of the theory of relativity, even if it falls within it, but there is new and more complex in physics always, although it is Relativity is still in the center of it all.
In fact, the last fake news draws attention to an important idea that will become clear shortly, but before that let us learn about a famous rumor that says that Albert Einstein was a failure in mathematics (5) when he was a child, but - on the contrary - what we know that Einstein was A distinguished student, at first none of his teachers expected him to be a genius, but at the age of eleven, he was reading university physics books, and at the age of thirteen he decided that Immanuel Kant was his favorite philosopher after reading “Critique of Pure Reason.” By fifteen He was a professional in calculus as an undergraduate.
Albert Einstein as a child
Albert was evidently a good student, sometimes lazy, and took no great interest in anything other than mathematics and physics, but he had no problem, as far as we know, in the learning process itself, or in making great effort to achieve academic results. The desired, but the most inviting to contemplation was always Albert Einstein’s quotes. For example, Wikiquote (6) contains a large number of his quotes compared to, for example, Aristotle, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin or Stephen Hawking, but despite that, the most famous Albert Einstein quotes Fame is not correct.
Take, for example, one of Albert Einstein’s most famous sayings, widespread here in the Arab world, and which often take a political nature, which is his saying (7) “Stupidity (madness) is doing the same thing over and over and then waiting for different results,” or his saying that (8) "Any idiot can make things bigger, more complicated, and more violent, but it takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." In fact, we find no evidence, written documents such as press interviews, for the validity of these quotes, which are not It is still popular now.
Add to that the fact that sometimes the problem has been to adapt a quote from Albert Einstein to suit a particular task, or to be so simple that people can easily circulate it. Take, for example, the quote: “Everything should be as simple as possible, but not the simplest.” From that”, which is, perhaps, an abridged version of (9) part of a lecture written by Einstein in 1933 in which he says: “It cannot be denied that the supreme aim of all theory is to put its essential, irreducible elements in the simplest form, and the fewest in the number of words used, without having to compromise an appropriate representation of any of the facts.”
But that state of abbreviation and alteration was, at times, the reason for a misunderstanding of what Albert Einstein meant by his speech. Here let us dwell on the most famous quotes of Albert Einstein who said in a conversation with Niels Bohr once that “God does not play dice,” here Bohr replied: “You do not dictate to God what to do.” In fact, these are not exactly Einstein’s words, as they are derived from a letter written in German in December 1926 to (10) his friend Max Born, in which he says exactly: “Mechanics Quantum gives a lot, but it does not bring us closer to the mystery of the "old", I am - however - convinced that he does not play dice." Note that Albert Einstein, here, does not use (11) the word "God" (Gott) in the German version of The quote, rather, uses the word "Der Alte", an expression denoting the degree of incarnation of the Deity in nature.
This brings us to another famous error in understanding, as God according to Einstein is not a god in the understandable sense, and perhaps is not a driver of the equations that govern the universe as much as it is (12) the equations themselves (a monotheistic view that says that the universe and God are one reality), judgment, or Say the law, the strict, precise classic defined as the gears of a clock and capable, therefore, of foreseeing everything future and evoking everything that happened in the past. That's why Albert Einstein would object and get furious when Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says that "uncertainty" occurs not only for a lack of Our experiences or our tools, but it is an essential part of the basic structure of the universe, here God himself - from Albert's point of view - cannot be unable to accurately predict the future!
This point, in turn, brings us to several important interpretations of the reasons for this great spread of quotes and actions, which were never initiated by Albert Einstein, or those originated from him but have been modified, the first of which is the use to promote, for a particular doctrine, cause or direction, Albert Einstein is a center of authority Universal Unimaginable how powerful, if he says or does something it means, to the common people, it is an absolute truth, so clergymen, of almost all religions, for example, will use it to support their ideas, and vegetarians will also use it to promote their tendencies though That Albert Einstein had abstained (13) from eating meat for a medical reason.
On the other hand, you will find that some philosophers will use Einstein's fame to promote the statement that "everything is relative", which supports certain moral philosophies, although this, in fact, is against what Einstein meant in his relativity, and even in his dialogue with " The Saturday Evening Post" (14) Albert Einstein says, commenting on this point in particular: "What relativity means has been widely misunderstood. Philosophers play with words as children play with dolls. Relativity, as I see it, indicates that certain physical and mechanical facts that It was seen as static, it is relativism when we take into account other physical and mechanical facts, relativity does not mean we have the right to maliciously turn the world upside down.
As for the film directors, they will work to portray all scientists, as non-human, hyper-genius beings, who deal strangely with others, to steal the popularity of their films, in addition to the political use of Albert Einstein, especially by a state such as Israel, to portray a particular “sex” represented by a group Many people agree on a set of flimsy assumptions that he is "special", and of course HR coaches will use his incorrect quotes to peddle talk of success and unlimited energy that opens the door to pure genius.
But to achieve all of these goals, it was necessary for those parties, over many years, to glorify Albert Einstein as if he were a genius. The theory of relativity came to him as a “revelation.” Here, this idea of magical genius found wide acceptance among the general public. Some would like to imagine Creativity is a secret magical product of genius characters of a special character, in other words, people imagine that "some are talented, others are not", and as long as we do not have that very special mental state, then we need not make every effort to try to get Whatever we want, that was to become a novelist or a physicist or a violinist, we can only continue to sink into our own laziness as long as we are not talented, right?
For a clearer understanding of this point, let us consider the famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein, but he never said it, that (15) “Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live a full life believing that it is stupid.” This quote tries To direct his reader, implicitly, to a set of ideas that say that circumstances, perhaps educational systems, or political systems, are only the cause of our personal failure, and that we do not need, then, to search for reasons of our own, such as laziness, for example, or fear of the future, It is what prevents us from achieving in our lives.
Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid 🏻♂️
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Mohamed Rabie (@alenezi_mr) May 24, 2020
But Albert Einstein says in a quote (16) that you won't see often on social media: "The only way to escape the corrupting influence of others' praise on you is to keep working." This is the words of a man who knows very well that genius lies mainly in making effort, but on On the contrary, you will find that what is most famous about Einstein in our societies is that he was a failure in his studies, or that his theory is so complex that it cannot be understood, so that the former is a justification for academic failure, and the latter is a justification for stopping aside and laziness to continue. They are special groups of people who have been since the day they were born, and we will never be like them.
In his book “Diaries of an Emerging Novelist,” Umporto Eco, the Italian philosopher and novelist, says: “I learned many things while writing my first novel, including that inspiration is a bad word.” Eco means here that the idea of “inspiration” and “revelation” that some talk about is just a word. For the purpose of consumption, a cliché repeated, but the truth is that he has worked for many years, up to eight whole years, in every one of his important novels, leave aside the talk of Hollywood films, and quotes from energy human development coaches, the secret - as Echo, Einstein, and everyone else say An essential production in this world - it is just that you continue to do as much effort as possible to the point of boredom.
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