(May 24, 2017 at 10:40 am)Crossless1 Wrote: Yes, Rik, Einstein was concerned about the rise of anti-Semitism and traveled to the U.S. to raise support for a Jewish center of learning on behalf of his friend Weizmann, as well as to deliver a number of addresses to universities and scientific societies. But you're missing the point. The reason his voice was seen as valuable on that issue was because of his celebrity; he was world famous, having been awarded the Nobel Prize for physics that very year. He wasn't widely known for Jewish or Zionist activism. He was known for his scientific achievements, and it was his fame for those accomplishments that gave him the high public profile he used to address other matters.
It doesn't change a thing, or matter in the least, that few of the people who lined the streets actually understood his work. The press had written extensively about him and people who didn't understand a thing about special or general relativity "knew" that his work was considered revolutionary. I dare say that most of them flocked to see him because they had been told that he had fundamentally changed the way we understand the universe -- not because he was going to solicit support for Weizmann's project. Hell, he was as famous, in his way, as Babe Ruth was!
I can't speak for my grandparents, who might well have been too young in 1921 to have noted Einstein's visit halfway across the country, but I'd be surprised if my great-grandparents had been unaware of his visit, since it was widely reported. Did they understand his work? I doubt it. But they sure as hell wouldn't have known of him because he was going to give an address on behalf of a Zionist organization.
Stick to your metaphysical cant. It's where your true 'talent' lies.
You may take that last word in both senses.
That is bizarre Cross.
You say...............It doesn't change a thing, or matter in the least, that few of the people who lined the streets actually understood his work.......
It certainly does matter Cross.
That is my very point from which all the chaos about Einstein started between me and you guys.
Didn't I said that Einstein in 1921 when he got in America wasn't known as great?
And as great I mean about his important work not great as he was eulogized by the media and the
few people who were fully aware of his scientific discoveries.
And didn't I asked you guys whether your fathers or grand father knew about Einstein theory of relativity?
You yourself admitted that is unlikely that your father or grand father knew about it that is why
I was spot on in saying that people who greet Einstein knew little of nothing about the meaning of his theory and his work in general and therefore he was little known in general.
Just try to guess Cross.
What you reckon would be the percentage of people on planet earth who really knew about his scientific discoveries before his death?
1% maybe?
No, not even that that is why I said that during his life he was little known.
What is the point in having Einstein put in the seat of great personality by the media when 99,9% of the people wouldn't have a clue about his important work?
It is a bit like religious people who put Christ in the throne of heaven when in fact 99,9% of people haven't got a clue what Christ is and was all about.
In order to say this or that chap is great you got to understand why is great and the masses that greet Einstein did not that is why I said that he was not know as great.
Capisci?
