<div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>Not only was he a real person -- he even had a sense of humour</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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<br>His driver offered that he had heard the lecture so many times that he [old Joe] could deliver the lecture.<br>Einstein thought this an amusing idea -- so they agreed in the next small college town to switch identities<br>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<br>So Joe ascended the stage as Prof. Einstein while Einstein sat discreetly in the back of the auditorium<br>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<br>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] <br>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<br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">"Why I'm surprised that you don't know that -- it's so obvious that my Driver could even answer"</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Einstein stood up -- answered the student and then the masquerade scheme was revealed to all</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:37 AM john rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4575024888927801057WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="570" height="185" style="width: 5.9375in; height: 1.927in;" id="gmail-m_4575024888927801057Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1810190973d4cff311"><u></u><u></u></p></div></div>===============================================<br>
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