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...have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan but I could not do anything at all to prevent that fateful decision." ALBERT EINSTEIN, in a recently discovered 1953 letter to Japanese philosopher Seiei Shinohara, responding to Shinohara's criticism of the renowned physicist's role in the development of nuclear weapons...
...glorious years—my bedroom. The room and its inhabitant, however, are currently unrecognizable. As I stood surveying the damage, I realized it was total destruction, no trace of the room’s real occupant left among the debris. My clichéd Einstein posters were replaced with haphazardly-hung drawings and finger-paintings. My trophies were relegated to “storage” upstairs. My bookcases were restocked with Dr. Seuss, The Berenstein Bears, and strange dragon-themed books that I can neither understand nor pronounce...
...modern quest for a Theory of Everything began not long after Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1915. Eager to continue breaking new ground, the great scientist next attempted to link his pet force, gravity, to electromagnetism. He pursued this quest without success until his death...
...basic forces are transmitted through quanta, tiny packets of energy. The quanta, tossed like softballs between particles of matter, such as protons or electrons, account for the interaction between the particles. Electromagnetism, for example, had long been conceived as traveling in bundles of light known as photons. (In fact, Einstein had elaborated this concept in explaining the photoelectric effect, a feat that later won him the Nobel Prize in 1921.) More recently physicists conjured up hypothetical bits, called W and Z particles, to carry the weak force; gluons to transmit the strong force; and gravitons, which would transmit the force...
...famous anecdote, Galileo Galilei clambered to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, simultaneously dropped cannonballs of different sizes and found that they all hit the ground at the same time. He thus convinced the world--and in the years to come, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as well--that in a vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning...