Einstein's Handwritten Theory of Relativity Notes Smash Auction Record. Albert Einstein's handwritten notes for the theory of relativity fetched a record 11.6 million euros (US$13 million) at an auction in Paris on Tuesday.
The manuscript had been valued at around a quarter of the final sum, which is by far the highest ever paid for anything written by the genius scientist. It contains preparatory work for the physicist's signature achievement, the theory of general relativity, which he published in 1915. Calling the notes "without a doubt the most valuable Einstein manuscript ever to come to auction", Christie's – which handled the sale on behalf of the Aguttes auction house – had estimated prior to the auction that it would fetch two to three million euros. Previous records for Einstein's works were US$2.8 million for the so-called "God letter" in 2018, and US$1.56 million in 2017 for a letter about the secret to happiness. Bids on Tuesday opened at 1.5 million euros and quickly went past the auctioneers' estimate. Google Earth user reckon they have spotted 'alien' lurking at remote coordinates.
Einstein. Physics Mystery Behind “Coffee Ring” Formation Uncovered. An international research team, led by Monash University, has discovered for the first time the mystery behind the formation of ‘coffee rings’ by examining the contact angle of droplets onto a surface, and how they dry.
The research collaboration involving Monash University and Cambridge University also developed a mathematical model that is capable of predicting when a coffee ring could be observed in hard spherical particle systems. Professor Gil Garnier, Director of BioPRIA (Bioresource Processing Research Institute of Australia) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University, led an international team to explore how patterns formed from evaporating droplets – a phenomenon that has mystified physicists for years. Professor Garnier said this discovery, created by Dr. Michael Hertaeg from BioPRIA, could open up doors in the blood diagnostics arena, especially for the discovery of treatments for anemia and other blood diseases. 'Glitch in the Matrix' Film Review: Trippy Doc Questions Nature of Reality. Director Rodney Ascher’s specialty is obsession, but his approach succeeds as compassion.
After giving voice to people consumed by “The Shining” (“Room 237”), ventriloquist dummies (“The Wooden Boy”) and sleep paralysis (“The Nightmare”), he’s shifted his attention to simulation theory with “Glitch in the Matrix,” premiering at Sundance just before it goes into wider release. A subject tailor-made for college, festival and midnight audiences, simulation theory questions human determination by positing that we are merely avatars, and that some greater force — an external gamer, if you will — is our master manipulator. Much of this concept comes directly from sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, who is copiously represented throughout “Glitch.” Ascher makes much use of a recorded 1977 event in which Dick presents these ideas with utmost sincerity, even while admitting that “I may be talking about something which does not exist. SMU Lyle School of Engineering.
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After all, it would pass with flying colors the tests of correctness and significance. And while popular mythology holds that the paper was incomprehensible to its first readers, in fact many papers in theoretical physics are much more difficult. As the physicist Richard Feynman wrote, “There was a time when the newspapers said that only 12 men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time. There might have been a time when only one man did, because he was the only guy who caught on, before he wrote his paper.
No, the problem is its style. A similar process of professionalization has transformed other parts of the scientific landscape. These professionalizing tendencies are an all-but-inevitable consequence of the explosive growth of modern science.
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