tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post113250427423343484..comments2024-03-28T03:24:52.114-04:00Comments on The Lansey Brothers' Blog: An open letter to the author of Stone SoupEli Lanseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955234977479398457noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-1132513358878402032005-11-20T14:02:00.000-05:002005-11-20T14:02:00.000-05:00Dear Jan Elliot:In your Stone Soup comic, you stat...Dear Jan Elliot:<BR/><BR/>In your Stone Soup comic, you statee that Einstein published no useful physics papers after his divorce, and you further insinuate this this resulted because his wife Mileva was no longer helping him.<BR/><BR/>This is simply not true. In 1924. Satyendra Nath Bose together with Einstein published a paper predicting a state of matter called a Bose-<I>Einstein</I> condensate as well as desribing certain statistics of light. This is an extremly important result in quantum physics which happened a full 5 years after the divorce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-1132512278517992852005-11-20T13:44:00.000-05:002005-11-20T13:44:00.000-05:00While Wikipedia mentions that Mileva may possibly ...While Wikipedia mentions that Mileva may possibly have helped on relativity, it makes no mention of her help with the Photoelectric Effect. She got part of the Noble Prize money merely because they were married when he wrote the paper.<BR/><BR/>Some people further speculate that the reason Einstein wrote the papers in the patent office was his need for solitude when he wrote, something that make a colllaboration with his wife unlikly<BR/><BR/>Also Wikipedia clearly states that no one is sure what happened to the first child, probably because she was illegitamate. So there doesn't seem to be any evidence that Einstein forced her to do anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18103977.post-1132506288730367622005-11-20T12:04:00.000-05:002005-11-20T12:04:00.000-05:00While Einstein's theory of special relativity make...While Einstein's theory of special relativity makes use of the Lorenz transformations, his general theory of relativity requires much more difficult math. Which it's probably he could have done anyway. Since, really, the math partially leads to the ideas. He probably didn't wake up one day and go, "You know, I think Newton was wrong. Let me ask Mileva how I can show that with math."Eli Lanseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01955234977479398457noreply@blogger.com