Albert Einstein

amrit

17th June 2009 - 11:54 AM

Please members here comment Einstein,
yours amrit

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction
between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Albert Einstein
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

“Time--the time that we know through clocks and calendars--was invented”.
Albert Einstein
http://www.britannica.com/clockworks/article.html

jsaldea12

18th June 2009 - 09:36 AM

One cannot say all those things unless one has gained wisdom, and wisdom cannot be gained in a year but patience through long years, decades, Einstein, one of the greatest original thinkers of our time, had spoken with wisdom.

Jsaldea12

6.20.09

amrit

18th June 2009 - 03:20 PM

QUOTE (jsaldea12+Jun 18 2009, 09:36 AM)

One cannot say all those things unless one has gained wisdom, and wisdom cannot be gained in a year but patience through long years, decades, Einstein, one of the greatest original thinkers of our time, had spoken with wisdom.

Jsaldea12

6.20.09

yes, eternity is now

AlphaNumeric

18th June 2009 - 04:15 PM

If I quoted Einsteiin saying "God does not play dice" that doesn't magically make quantum mechanics wrong. If all you've got is quotes and not any science you've failed already Amrit.

amrit

18th June 2009 - 04:45 PM

QUOTE (AlphaNumeric+Jun 18 2009, 04:15 PM)

If I quoted Einstein saying "God does not play dice" that doesn't magically make quantum mechanics wrong. If all you've got is quotes and not any science you've failed already Amrit.

God cannot does not play dice because universe is timeless.
Universe is now in this moment.
It is only this moment existing.
Eternity is now.

So there is no time to play dice.
Dice play is mind stuff.
Mind means time.
Consciousness means timelessness, NOW.

Why nobody here is able to comment Einstein quotes on time ?????????

AlphaNumeric

18th June 2009 - 05:25 PM

QUOTE (amrit+Jun 18 2009, 05:45 PM)

Why nobody here is able to comment Einstein quotes on time ?????????

Because people don't think Einstein was perfect and someone who should be blindly listened to. Oh and because you're an idiot.

AlexG

18th June 2009 - 05:27 PM

When Einstein speaks of inventing time, he's talking about it in this sense:

QUOTE

In order to have a complete description of the motion, we must specify how the body alters its position with time; i.e. for every point on the trajectory it must be stated at what time the body is situated there. These data must be supplemented by such a definition of time that, in virtue of this definition, these time-values can be regarded essentially as magnitudes (results of measurements) capable of observation.

Relativity, The Special and General Theory A. Einstein, 1920 Chapt. 3

What is being invented are time-values which have measurable magnitudes. Time keeping is being invented, not time.

You like to pull single quotes out of context. Out of context quotes are usually pretty meaningless.

buttershug

18th June 2009 - 06:36 PM

QUOTE (AlphaNumeric+Jun 18 2009, 05:25 PM)

Because people don't think Einstein was perfect and someone who should be blindly listened to. Oh and because you're an idiot.

Hey now, be nice.
Just because you are talking about someone(Einstein) who started his honeymoon by locking himself and new bride out of his apartment is no reason to be snarky.

To Jsaldea21;
Einstien did almost all his ground breaking work as a young man.

RobDegraves

18th June 2009 - 08:52 PM

Actually, Einstein is somewhat of a hero of mine.

However, your quotes of him Amrit are a great insult to the man he was.

AlexG's quote is much more apropos and better illustrates his genius.

Einstein has a huge number of quotes attributed to him and usually taken out of context, many of them self contradictory.

The best measure of the scientist he was is to read and understand, if you can, his body of work. He was not a God, he would have told you that himself, and he was not infallible. He was a scientist and a humanitarian. Anything else is your own imagination.

Meem

18th June 2009 - 10:19 PM

QUOTE

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

On death

QUOTE (->

QUOTE

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Plato

On death
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

- Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

Science and religion

QUOTE

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein

Time

QUOTE (->

QUOTE

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein

Time
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
Albert Einstein

jsaldea12

18th June 2009 - 10:34 PM

Do we know when did Dr. Einstein said those quotations? Please reveal. Reiterating, Einstein could not have said such wisdom unless one has experienced it through the years, with patience and time, in scores of decades.

jsaldea12

6.21.09

amrit

19th June 2009 - 12:17 PM

QUOTE (RobDegraves+Jun 18 2009, 08:52 PM)

Actually, Einstein is somewhat of a hero of mine.

However, your quotes of him Amrit are a great insult to the man he was.

AlexG's quote is much more apropos and better illustrates his genius.

Einstein has a huge number of quotes attributed to him and usually taken out of context, many of them self contradictory.

The best measure of the scientist he was is to read and understand, if you can, his body of work. He was not a God, he would have told you that himself, and he was not infallible. He was a scientist and a humanitarian. Anything else is your own imagination.

insult?

rpenner

6th July 2009 - 06:40 PM

QUOTE (AlphaNumeric+Jun 18 2009, 05:25 PM)

Because people don't think Einstein was perfect and someone who should be blindly listened to. Oh and because you're an idiot.

Hear, hear!

Amrit, since in the past tiresome years, you have not be able to prove that time does not exist or even connect your claim with a communicable point of view, why should I not attempt to win the argument (for all practical purposes) by suspending your account for 1,588,486,769,856,000,000 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom, effectively separating past from future for you and us both?

flyingbuttressman

6th July 2009 - 06:49 PM

QUOTE (rpenner+Jul 6 2009, 01:40 PM)

Hear, hear!

Amrit, since in the past tiresome years, you have not be able to prove that time does not exist or even connect your claim with a communicable point of view, why should I not attempt to win the argument (for all practical purposes) by suspending your account for 1,588,486,769,856,000,000 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom, effectively separating past from future for you and us both?

I'm guessing... 2000 Earth days?

rpenner

7th July 2009 - 01:23 AM

If I am right and amrit is wrong, yes. 2000 days.

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