[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Einstein

[Ted Kochanski]

All,

Not only was he a real person -- he even had a sense of humour

The following was told to me by John Wheeler who worked with Einstein at
Princeton before he [Wheeler] migrated to the U of T.  When I was a young
graduate student I took a couple of theoretical physics courses from
Wheeler -- he told this joke while we were talking about Tensor General
Relativity

Einstein had been on a tour giving lectures in many cities -- he and his
> driver [old Joe] an old Princeton retainer, were discussing the next few
> lectures in the midwest before they would finally be returning to Princeton
> His driver offered that he had heard the lecture so many times that he
> [old Joe] could deliver the lecture.
> Einstein thought this an amusing idea -- so they agreed in the next small
> college town to switch identities
> Upon arrival Einstein met with the College faculty and described the plan
> -- all of them agreed to not disclose the ruse until the lecture was over
> So Joe ascended the stage as Prof. Einstein while Einstein sat
> discreetly in the back of the auditorium
> Joe delivered the talk on Relativity and Clocks and accepted the applause
> -- but before the ruse could be disclosed by the Head of the Department  --
> Joe had accepted a question from a student
> The question was not at all involved with the topic of the lecture -- it
> concerned the Photoelectric Effect [1905 -- along with Brownian Motion, the
> primary reason for Einstein's Nobel Prize]
> Joe -- didn't have clue as to the topic -- but he wasn't ready to admit
> defeat -- so old Joe puffed-up and told the student
>
"Why I'm surprised that you don't know that -- it's so obvious that my
> Driver could even answer"

Einstein stood up -- answered the student and then the masquerade scheme
> was revealed to all


Ted







On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:37 AM john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:

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