[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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