[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Einstein

Fri May 27 13:00:11 PDT 2022

Not Einstein but  almost as famous

Prior to COVID I had been volunteering at the  Boston  MOS for nearly 30
years -- my role was then called Exhibit Hall Interpreter -- we would go
into the hall either with a stand alone cart-based "interpretation"  of
something such as Lenz's Law and magnets or alternatively we would locate
adjacent to an exhibit

One of my favorites was  the Cloud Chamber -- and my interpretation was
focused not just on the science but on the people whose discoveries
provided key steps along the way toward our understanding of the essence of
radioactivity and nuclear science
As part of keeping the interpretation "au courant"--I would search the web
for "stuff" connected to the science or the people
One day I came across  the following story

It seems that a woman in the UK was having a significant birthday and
cousin was determined to do something memorable
The birthday girl was a big fan of the pop star Mariah Carey
The cousin heard about a new process at a local bakery whereby a picture or
text could be 3D printed onto the top of a cake or pie
The cousin ordered a cake with face of Mariah Carey on top of it for her
birthday girl
The cake arrived the box was opened and the cake was "faced" by the
visage of not Mariah Carrey but dual Nobel prize winning Maria Sklowdowska
Curie [the only person to ha received a  Nobel in Physics and a 2nd in
Chemistry]
Well there things could have stopped -- except this is the Age of Social
Media -- someone put the picture with the cake and look of surprize  out on
facebook or twitter
That might have been the end of it -- but someone got the "surprise" story
with pix out to Mariah Carey
Once Again -- the story might have ended there-- but Mariah Carrey decided
to reward her devoted fan with a tweet [and her pix]
in her tweet she said: " that could have been me if I hadn't failed
remedial math"
[image: image.png]

Great story

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 3:32 PM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does it matter? It does fit with Einstein's sense of humor.
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> By the way, speaking of taking the stage as someone else, I had the
> experience last Tuesday evening of having to step in at a Zoom Meeting when
> the real leader of the group became ill at the last minute. The ruse lasted
> only until one of the regulars recognized that I was not the leader.
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> Some commented that I had been a better leader than the actual group
> leader. I told them I'm happy to keep my day job with LCTG. (As a
> non-leader.)  (This was an evening meeting, so the term day job could
> rightfully be used as a contrast.)
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> -- Bob Primak
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> On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 03:12:22 PM EDT, john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
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> I have heard that story and always assumed it was a joke. Are you sure it
> is real?
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> John Rudy
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> *From:* Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 26, 2022 2:41 PM
> *To:* john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net>
> *Cc:* Lex Computer Group <LCTG at lists.toku.us>
> *Subject:* Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Einstein
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> All,
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> Not only was he a real person -- he even had a sense of humour
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> 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
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> 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
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> Ted
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> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:37 AM john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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