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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (28543)	1/18/1999 3:13:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I knew Einstein not well, listened, remembered because I knew then I'd never meet a greater man. Never did. He was really fun and grand. I once intercepted and had arrested a man who had a bomb for him in the work rooms of student Commons at Princeton. No one else seemed to care. The Hamlet mimickry and peanut cadging is invention. I was a freshman to junior scientist, wiggled my way in the teas at Fine Hall and the IAS seminars. There were no guards. You could walk up and stand outside the rings of mathematicians and physicists and listen in. If it turned to politics (as oft it did) the groups would break up for the all hated each other on the bomb. Then outsiders could siddle up and talk to old man about peace and the future. He would listen to any idea from a young person. He really did like girls. After Bohr had written E=h(nu) on the board and addressed it, tapped chalk on it, and written nothing else but rhapsodizing on the indeterminacy of the electron -- wheeled to the small audience and said in his Danish accent: "und zo we see, dot dere are som dings in das welt dat we cannot understand -- umskiddle deedle." Einstein, sitting in the center place of honor, continuing a life-long feud with Bohr on this issue (even I knew that then)said: "D'nk Gott!" We then had tea and Lorna Doone Short Bread Cakes. I literally lived on snacks that year.