Tuesday, June 28, 2005
[1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, born in Geneva, Switzerland]
[1902 - Richard Rodgers, Academy Award-winning composer, born in Long Island, New York]
[1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, born in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, then Germany]
[1919 - Germany and the Allies sign Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I]
Universal Law
Einstein's first gift to the world you see,
Was the Special Theory of Relativity.
A long time passed before fame or fortune,
Rewarded him in proper proportion.
To be a revolutionary new principle.
After all it only seemed to define,
A key relationship for all mankind.
With an Atomic Age we now were gifted.
If mass to energy is so easily converted,
Some of our thinking must be inverted.
William's Whimsical Words:
2005 Marks the Centennial of the remarkable year in which Einstein rewrote the laws of physics.
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