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“If, then, it is true that the axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever hope to find the right way? Nay, more, has this right way any existence outside our illusions? … I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable of finding it. … In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.”
— Albert Einstein (10 June 1933)
On the Methods of Theoretical Physics
Herbert Spencer Lecture, University of Oxford
#alberteinstein #einstein

"𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎. 𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍."

─ 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘌𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯

A rare cosmic phenomenon called an #Einstein ring.

There are two galaxies, separated by a large distance. The foreground galaxy is at the center, while the background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring. 

The light from the more distant object is bent about a massive intermediate object because #spacetime, the fabric of the #Universe itself, is bent by mass, and therefore light travelling through #space and #time is bent as well.

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1/ Konsum von Bekleidung in der EU gestiegen. 2 kg mehr als 2019. @peer erklärt mir ja immer wieder, dass der #Kapitalismus nicht per se schlecht ist. Aber wenn man #dasRegeltDerMarkt lässt, dann kommt halt so was raus.

Es braucht viel mehr #Verbote. Oder Aufklärung? Ach, ich bin ja schon ruhig.

Wer braucht dieses ganze Zeug? Fashion-Apps?

Was kann man machen? Steuern? Mindestpreise für Textilien? Die Lieferketten sind ja schon mal gut.

Übrigens hat mir eine Bekannte, die nach der Wende in Frankfurt/M bei einer Bank angefangen hat, erzählt, dass es ja unmöglich sei, zwei Mal hinternander die selben Sachen anzuziehen.

Ich habe einen Trick: Ich habe mehrfach gleiche Hosen und T-Shirts. Die wechsele ich, habe also immer gleiche Sachen an. Alle schwarz, da gibt es keine Probleme in der Farbabstimmung und alle zehn Jahre ist man im Trend.

Ihr könnt Euch dabei auch auf #Einstein berufen.

taz.de/Hoher-Textilkonsum/!607

TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Hoher Textilkonsum: Europäer kaufen so viel Kleidung wie noch nieDie Europäische Umweltagentur warnt vor Fast Fashion. Die Billig-App Shein wird am stärksten von Top-Verdienern genutzt.

Wo einst Albert Einstein sprach, fand gestern ein Science Slam statt! 🌟 Im Einstein-Saal der Archenhold-Sternwarte präsentierten fünf Slammys ihre Forschungsprojekte.

Den Sieg holte sich Daniel, der mit seiner Forschung zu Solarzellen begeisterte! 🎉

Ein riesiges Dankeschön an unsere Slammys, das Publikum, die Stiftung Planetarium Berlin und unseren Sponsor Zeiss! 🚀✨

(Foto: Stiftung Planetarium Berlin)

In the more distant future (say in about 5 years), however, I do see the big danger of an intervention of the military in physics… …it is impossible to imagine a united front of physicists against such tendencies; it is too easy to entice young people with good positions and career prospects. . .
—Pauli to Einstein, 19 Sep. 1946
#pauli to #einstein on #physics in #usa

Today in History, March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born. In addition to being one of the most significant physicists of all time, he was also a pacifist. Yet his letter to President Roosevelt warning of the Nazi progress on atomic weapons research was arguably key to the U.S. implementation of the Manhatton Project, a decision he later lamented. In 1955, well after the Cold War and nuclear arms race had begun, he and ten other intellectuals and scientists, including other Nobel Prize laureates, like Bertrand Russell and Linus Pauling, wrote a manifesto warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Einstein also participated in the U.S. Civil Rights movement, calling racism America’s “worst disease.” Later in his life he began to support socialism, and he criticized the Bolsheviks for their barbarism. Einstein was also a Zionist, and supported Jews’ right to return to Palestine. However, he did not support a Jewish state, or an Arab state, to replace Mandatory Palestine. Rather, he wanted a free, bi-national Palestine in which Jews and Arabs shared sovereignty, living peacefully and equally with each other.