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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Does it matter? It does fit with Einstein's sense of humor.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.)<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, May 26, 2022, 03:12:22 PM EDT, john rudy <jjrudy1@comcast.net> wrote:
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--></style><div><div class="yiv2787904708WordSection1"><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I have heard that story and always assumed it was a joke. Are you sure it is real?</span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">John Rudy</span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">781-861-0402</span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">781-718-8334 (cell)</span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1;">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</span></a> </span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">13 Hawthorne Lane</span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Bedford, MA 01730-1047</span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><img id="yiv2787904708Picture_x0020_2" border="0" width="99" height="94" style="width:1.0312in;min-height:.9791in;" src="cid:Ko95n06jUVSoY78xDosD" yahoo_partid="1.2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><div id="yiv2787904708yqt67598" class="yiv2787904708yqt5012431355"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd@gmail.com> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 26, 2022 2:41 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> john rudy <jjrudy1@comcast.net><br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> Lex Computer Group <LCTG@lists.toku.us><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Einstein</p></div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">All,</p><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">Not only was he a real person -- he even had a sense of humour</p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">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</p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;"><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">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 clear="none">His driver offered that he had heard the lecture so many times that he [old Joe] could deliver the lecture.<br clear="none">Einstein thought this an amusing idea -- so they agreed in the next small college town to switch identities<br clear="none">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 clear="none">So Joe ascended the stage as Prof. Einstein while Einstein sat discreetly in the back of the auditorium<br clear="none">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 clear="none">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 clear="none">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</p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0in;"><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;"><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">"Why I'm surprised that you don't know that -- it's so obvious that my Driver could even answer"</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;"><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">Einstein stood up -- answered the student and then the masquerade scheme was revealed to all</p></blockquote><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">Ted</p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:37 AM john rudy <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;"><div><div><p style="" class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="" class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal"><img id="yiv2787904708gmail-m_4575024888927801057Picture_x0020_1" border="0" width="570" height="185" style="width:5.9375in;min-height:1.927in;" src="cid:yRfqu3vNjg7NlFWlcJk7" yahoo_partid="1.3"></p></div></div><p class="yiv2787904708MsoNormal">===============================================<br clear="none">::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br clear="none">Reply goes to sender only; 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