On 8/29/2012 5:25 AM, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> See the wonderful book "E = Einstein" for a wonderful explanation of
> the Twins paradox, the results of Einstein's brilliant theory, the
> greatest person to have ever lived.
But he missed the link between mass and inertia, and chose for a time
line in a time dimension.
We know this because just before his death, he writes a letter of
condolence to the family of his just past away long time friend Besso,
where he states that Besso's life is conserved in the time line.
By choosing time and abandoning inertia, he misses out completely in
understanding QM and uncertainty, as illustrated by him saying : "God
does not play dice", and the irrelevance of his later work, illustrated
by the next quote of Lee Smolin's book :
QUOTE [Lee Smolin, in "The Trouble with Physics" :]
My first job after getting my PhD was in 1979 at the Institute for
Advanced Study, in Princeton. One of my main reasons for taking it was
the hope of making contact with some living legacy of Einstein, who had
died twenty-four years earlier. In this I was disappointed. There was no
trace of his time there, apart from a bust of him in the library. No
student or follower of Einstein could be found. Only a few people who
had known him, like the theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, were still
there. My first week there, Dyson, very much the gentleman, came by and
invited me to lunch. After inquiring about my work, he asked if there
was anything he could do to make me more at home in Princeton. I had but
one request. �Could you tell me what Einstein was really like?� I asked.
Dyson replied, �I�m very sorry, but that�s one thing I can�t help you
with.� Surprised, I insisted, �But you came here in 1947 and you were a
colleague of his until he died in 1955.� Dyson explained that he too had
come to the institute hoping to get to know Einstein. So he went to
Einstein�s secretary, Helen Dukas, to make an appointment. The day
before the appointment, he began to worry about not having anything
specific to discuss with the great man, so he got from Ms. Dukas copies
of Einstein�s recent scientific papers. They were all about Einstein�s
efforts to construct a unified-field theory. Reading them that evening,
Dyson decided they were junk. The next morning, he realized that
although he couldn�t face Einstein and tell him his work was junk, he
couldn�t not tell him either. So he skipped the appointment and, he told
me, spent the ensuing eight years before Einstein�s death avoiding him.
UNQUOTE
FROM
Smolin, Lee (2008-02-28). The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String
Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next (pp. 49-50). ePenguin.
Kindle Edition.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Trouble-With-Physics-ebook/dp/B003WUYP56/
Uwe Hayek.