[time-nuts] Hacker News link
Chuck Harris
cfharris at erols.com
Fri May 8 13:10:03 UTC 2009
Hi Magnus,
Which biography are you reading?
The last one I read was by Walter Isaacson. It was a very
good story of a very odd man.
-Chuck Harris
Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Tom Van Baak skrev:
>>> One of our very own got noticed today on Hacker News:
>>> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598090
>>
>> Yes, thanks, and also a large following on reddit today:
>> <http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8iiov/this_man_is_either_the_greatest_or_the_worst_dad/>
>>
>>
>> For those of you relatively new to time-nuts, the main page for
>> that cesium clock general relativity time-dilation experiment is:
>>
>> http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/
>
> Highly recommended!
>
> Currently I am reading a biography of Einstein which I got on my
> birthday. That man had many types of struggles at all kinds of levels.
> The general relativity was one of them. Infact, his trusted friend
> Grossman put him on the right track years before (the Zurich notebook),
> but Einsteins preconception of how the result should be made him abandon
> that trail for a number of years. It's a lovely mess of Riemann and
> Ricci tensors. Digging around I learned that there is (quite) a few
> pieces of math I need to learn in order to really follow the calculations.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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