Poor William's Almanack, June 28, 2010, Universal Law

Ben Franklin's bifocals Monday, June 28, 2010

[1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, artist, born in Siegen, Westphalia]

[1703 - John Wesley, minister, born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England]

[1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher,
born in Geneva, Switzerland]

[1902 - Richard Rodgers, Academy Award-winning composer, born on Long Island, New York]

[1905 - Ashley Montague (Israel Ehrenberg),
anthropologist, born in London]

[1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel physicist,
born in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia]

[1914 - World War I begins]

Versailles - treaty signing
[1919 - Germany and Allies sign Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I]

[1932 - Pat (Noriyuki) Morita, actor, born in Isleton, California]

[1946 - Gilda Susan Radner, Emmy Award-winning
comedienne, actress, born in Detroit]

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.

Einstein geting the idea for his theories

E=mc² - Perhaps it just looked too simple,
To be a revolutionary new principle.
After all it only seemed to define,
A key relationship for all mankind.

Then all at once the paradigm shifted,
With an Atomic Age we now were gifted.
If mass to energy is so easily converted,
Some of our thinking needs to be inverted.
Einstein playing with the atom

Einstein's concept of a sphere orbiting gravity well

A-Bomb mushroom cloud with scary lightning effects Einstein shaking his head no

William's Whimsical Words:

1905 was a remarkable year in which Einstein rewrote the laws of physics.

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