The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." – Albert Einstein Eighty years have passed since the twin horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki scorched their way into the conscience of humankind.
It was the Black Hole tragedy that eventually led to Bengal's last Nawab, Siraj-ud-Daulah's execution on the midnight of 2 July 1757. Interestingly, after 201 years, it had lent scientist Albert Einstein's ageless theory a name, making Kolkata an inevitable part of the Theory of Relativity.
After some thought, I decided to base my list on the spiritual implications of the laws. Such associations suggest that these laws (applicable to inert objects in physics) are perhaps special cases of more far-reaching principles applicable to our entire existence.
Einstein wondered about the meaning of our existence and purpose of human life our ‘brief sojourn‘ on earth and was convinced that we exist not for ourselves but for others. He wrote: ‘But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy‘
Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism — 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern mathematics
Scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, along with Albert Einstein, defined the general properties of bosons that occupy half the universe.
Meaning ‘harp in sky,’ Tianqin was started in 2015 by Sun Yat-sen University in south China's Guangdong province.
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Does Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Maric, deserve credit for some of his work?
