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Albert Einstein: How to have Deep Thoughts
Albert Einstein had deep thoughts.
What was his secret?
He said that it was because he was capable to think continuously on a single problem for a long time.
You in all probability have a deep thought or two in the catacombs of your mind. You had the thought and you may have buried it. Einstein would have kept that single thought on top of his mental “stack of thoughts” and concentrated on that one thought until he had produced it to the point that he could present it along with all of it is ramifications to the world in a consistent fashion.
Even Einstein’s worst thought, at least what he thought was a “blunder,” was the cosmological neverending fudge element he applied in his relativity equations. Einstein had assumed a static universe. When Edwin Hubble saw that the universe was actually expanding, Einstein said that the cosmological continuous was his “biggest blunder.”
According to http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/Lambda/blund.html Einstein’s fault was not a mathematical fault but a philosophical mistake. Today scientists are still giving careful consideration to and estimating the value of the ceaseless because of the early elaboration of the universe that gave it it is shape. Quantum mechanical considerations are likewise important. To Einstein, the cosmological ceaseless provided a way of balancing the gravitational contraction caused by matter. I often read articles when it comes to the constant.
If you have to have a “blunder,” make it a good one like Einstein’s.
When I was a graduate student I was always amazed by the contributions of Einstein. He contributed in numerous ways to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of the photoelectric effect which is part of quantum mechanics. He helped construct Bose-Einstein stats essential in solid state physics. He contributed to Brownian motion and viscosity indispensable in surface chemistry. He likewise contributed to reaction rate theory essential to chemistry. Of course his theory of relativity is of immense importance to astronomers and cosmologist.
From what Einstein said, he thought with regards to these troubles one at a time.
Einstein thought that major contributions to science best come from outside the centers of academia. He advised gifted humans to work a regular occupation and do their science on the side without distraction from any person else that might lead them astray or confuse your thinking. He was working in a patent office as a clerk when he staged his paper on the photoelectric effect.
How to Concentrate on One Problem at a Time
I personally have always found it very difficult to concentrate on a single problem for an extended time. You may have noticed from the multitude of subjects in my listing at http://www.ezinearticles.com/?expert=John_T_Jones,_Ph.D. that I am a scatter brain. My novels and other books and articles I have written over the years have subjects that are “all over the place.” See http://www.tjbooks.com.
Now that I’m in my mid seventies, I find it very difficult to concentrate on even simple problems. Last night I was solving a good deal of troubles from a new book I picked up yesterday. I had just learned from the dentist that my bill was almost two grand so I decisive to wait a while to buy a new laptop and rather went to Barnes and Noble. The book is The World’s Biggest Puzzle Book by Charles Barry Townsend. Purchase at http://tinyurl.com/m5rqc.
Anyway, I was solving a problem using simple algebraic equations from physics and held muddling them up. I solved the problem after fiddling around for an inordinate amount of time. It’s amusive how the brain works; last night I solved the same problem without paper in my mind while I was sleeping.
Keys to Concentration
Go to this web site to learn the keys to concentration: http://www.successwithdesley.com/articles/paying_attention.pdf. The article is short in the form of a PDF file. Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to get a free download of the Adobe Acrobat Reader you will need to read the file.
I don’t want to plagiarize the article. I will only name the headings and add my own comments. Here they are:
1.Be Single Minded: We must defer other activenesses until later.
2.Interest in Action: We need to be actively engaged. I’m in a timeless world when writing or painting landscapes. The right side of my brain has taken over. It is the side that solves complex multidimensional problems.
3.Mental Obedience: You ought to cut out the outside world.
4.Staying Power: We ought to persist in spite of of outside obstacles to attention (my wife hates this.)
5.Managing TIME: In this case TIME is an acronym. T=Thoughts, I=Interest, M=Moments, E=Emotions. The point by the author is that these are the items we think with regards to when we think in regards to the past, not days, weeks, and years.
Read the whole article. It is short and sweet.
There is another article on concentration at http://www.articles-hub.com/Article/41099.html, It may help you to win a victory over distractions.
There is a tape you may buy to help you with your concentration. Read in regards to it or order it at http://tinyurl.com/qzg5r.
Attention Deficit Disorder: ADD
Some humans have ADD. Many children (including one of my grandchildren) are being treated for this disability.
I decisive to read up on ADD at http://www.psychologytoday.com. Now I’m sure I have ADD. I have a good deal of of the symptoms. I just caught it.
Here is a good article by a psychologist who has DDT and how it affects him and his patience: http://tinyurl.com/gbu6t. If you think you have a problem, there is help on the Internet. Just put “ADD” into your search box.
The End
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Einstein File Hoovers Scientist Ebook
From the moment of Einstein’s arrival in the U.S. in l933 until his death in l955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, with aid from various other federal agencies, busied itself gathering “derogatory information” in an crusade to undermine Einstein’s influence and demolish his prestige. For the firstborn time Fred Jerome tells the story of that anti-Einstein campaign, as well as the story behind it–why and how the effort originated, and thereby provides the initial elaborate picture of Einstein’s little known political activism.
Unlike the general effigy of Einstein as an absent-minded, head-in-the-clouds genius, the man was in fact intensely politically active and felt it was his obligation to use his world-wide fame shrewdly in the cause of social justice. A enthusiasti pacifist, socialist, internationalist and outspoken critic of racism (Einstein considered racism America’s “worst disease”), and personal friend of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois, Einstein employed his tremendous prestige to denounce McCarthy at the height of his power, publicly urging witnesses to refuse to testify before HUAC.
The story that emerges not only reveals a little known aspect of Einstein’s character, but underscores the dangers that may arise, to threaten the American Republic and the rule of law, in times of obsession with national security.
ReviewFrom 1933 until 1955, the Federal Bureau of Investigation compiled a 2,000-page file on Albert Einstein, hoping to “destroy” his tremendous stature by linking him to Soviet espionage activities. At one point, not long before the scientist’s death, a severe try was made to have him deported. This alarming campaign–responsible in big percentage for Einstein’s exclusion from the Manhattan Project–is the subject of Fred Jerome’s The Einstein File. Einstein’s disloyalty, in the FBI’s view, was distinctly evidenced by his adamant political stances. He was a socialist, a pacifist (though he advocated war with Germany), and an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, nuclear war, and racism. Jerome’s skillful narrative weaves the file’s hateful (and often times ludicrously inaccurate) entries with American political history, creating an valuable context for both Einstein’s views and the FBI’s actions. Further, Jerome points to the more recent “sanitizing” of Einstein, from angry activist to “genial, absent-minded professor.” This is a fascinating, compelling tale, one that reads like the strangest of fictions. –H. O’Billovich
From Publishers WeeklyNot only did J. Edgar Hoover keep a well-guarded (and from time to time comically erroneous) mystery file on Albert Einstein, reveals Jerome, a journalist and advisor to Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications, he actively sought to have the physicist deported. Though Einstein was far too standard to be brought down by Hoover’s normal smear tactics (even when covertly laundered through congressional committees), his file was filled with 1,800 pages of raw materials. But the lists of organizations he supported (antifascist, pacifist and antiracist) and “unsavory” humans he knew, such as Paul Robeson, lacked bite, since Einstein (unlike his biographers) happily publicized these associations. Accusations of subversive action ranged from the surreal (mind control and death rays) to carelessly recycled Nazi propaganda. Hoover’s only hope lay in exposing Einstein as a Soviet spy, a task he fruitlessly pursued from 1950 to 1955 (when Einstein died). Einstein revealed as anything but politically na‹ve fought back versus this chilling rerun of his experience in Germany 20 years earlier by calling for civil disobedience in resisting McCarthy and the House un-American Activities Committee, the most radical statement by any major figure at the time. Jerome proposes that standard history has been twisted by this encounter. If Hoover perfectly failed to limit Einstein’s political influence in his lifetime, Jerome argues, he helped depoliticize Einstein’s image, reducing his affect on future generations, a routine this book must support reverse. 16 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library JournalIt is not surprising that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI spied on Albert Einstein from 1933 to his death in 1955. As this well-done study makes clear, the famous scientist was also a social and political activist with strong pacifist and Socialist leanings. Einstein publicly supported the civil rights and anti-lynching movements and was a friend of leading African Americans. Unafraid, he was more than willing to denounce Joseph McCarthy and encouraged others to refuse to testify before him. These activities, plus his role in the development of nuclear weapons, led Hoover to investigate Einstein in search of “derogatory information,” hoping to discredit and at last deport him. While Hoover wanted to discover that Einstein was a Communist, his agents likewise assembled crazy stories such as that one of Einstein’s children was kept hostage by the Soviets. Journalist Jerome uses Einstein’s 2000-page FBI file plus consultations with persons intimate with the case to tell this story. Perhaps the most utile aspect of this magnificent book is that it reminds readers of the less-celebrated aspect of Einstein’s character: he was ready and more than willing to participate in the political arena. For all libraries. Stephen L. Hupp, West Virginia Univ., Parkersburg
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Most helpful client reviews
18 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
 More than a theory
By The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
The Einstein File by Fred Jerome, speedily dispels the poplar effigy
of Albert Einstein as an absentminded, head-in-the-clouds-genius.
Though Einstein is arguably the most widely covered, continuing
science story in history and is most brought up for his scientific
theories that transformed our view of the universe. This book
chronicles the life of an Einstein that the masses knew not one thing
about. An Einstein described as a troublemaker, an agitator, a
fervent pacifist, a socialist, and an open critic of racism.
Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year of
the Nazi’s assent to power in Germany, and became the focus of
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. And by any means necessary the FBI amassed
a ‘file cabinet’ of data on him. Fred Jerome stumbled on
documents that addressed Einstein as a Spy and a Kidnap Plotter.
And a dossier where Jerome came across the political dimension of
Albert Einstein’s life and his intense commitment to social justice.
Jerome says when he realized how much had not been told to us regarding
the life of the ‘Man of the Century’, he felt as though he had been
robbed. This is not another biography of Einstein, numerous two hundred
have already been written. It is a window opened by the FBI on the
nature of Einstein’s politics, the depth of his public involvement,
and the generosity of his endorsements of organizations he supported.
And it is this activism that made Hoover’s Bureau consider Einstein
dangerous. This book reveals data that makes one think the
history we recognise is sanitized, and what we don’t recognise is at times
appalling. It talks of a ‘list’ maintained by the FBI on celebrities,
political figures and any individual thought to have affiliatiions with the
Communist Party. It underscores the dangers that may arise, and the
rule of law that exists in times of obsession with national security.
And it gives rise to questions on where the line will have to be drawn on the issue
of an invasion of privacy. This one will make you take a seat.
Reviewed by aNN Brown
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Unusual suspects
By John C. Landon
Einstein was a troublemaker, the author informs us at the beginning of this book detailing, armed with the 1800 pages of files freed by the FOIA, with Hoover’s Albert-paranoia in action, aimed at the great scientist, specially in the years of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. The public effigy of the greatest scientist of the twentieth century has been cautiously manicured, but behind the teddy bear was a determined activist on some fronts, who fell afoul of not only the Nazis, but of the FBI. Einstein’s valiant stands on social justice, racism, antisemitism, war, peace, and the Bomb scarcely enter public knowingness through the layers of the myth. The record of Hoover’s manipulations and skullduggeries is closely pathetic in it is pickiun character, next also to it is bungling and misinformation. It is, for example, discouraging to watch how Einstein is deprived of security clearance, lest a man with such a reputation and international popularity be, we suspect the motive, capable to influence or speak out from the inside on the use of the initial atom bomb. The portrait left of the reactionary and racist Hoover at the head of a critical institution carrying out or participate in this biased and incomprehending agenda is not one thing less than appalling. The portrait of Einstein’s deep social worries (read a triffle ‘leftist’) in action is the real man, please.
11 of 11 persons found the following review helpful.
Shockingly Relevant Today
By G. Joy Robins
This is a ought to read book for numerous reasons. We have permitted J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power to slip quietly into fuzzy memory. We have failed to learn from history and are now condemned to repeat it.
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