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| Mar-31-03 | | skakmiv: I didn't know that Einstein played chess.. |
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Mar-31-03
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| Mar-31-03 | | Shadout Mapes: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein As you say, relativity was not complex, but unique. |
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| Mar-31-03 | | ughaibu: Lasker had a varied career in many fields yet he said he had only met one genius, it wasn't Einstein, it was Capablanca! |
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| Aug-12-03 | | pkspks: einstein once said that he didnt like chess that much. |
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| Aug-12-03 | | sleepkid: Einstein once remarked that he wished his friend Lasker wouldn't waste so much time on chess. And if I remember correctly, both men refused to use shaving cream. . . and when Lasker lost his teeth he refused to where dentures. |
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| Aug-12-03 | | Sylvester: These geniuses! |
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| Aug-12-03 | | Kenneth Sterling: Einstein demonstrated the limits of Newtonian physics. |
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| Aug-27-03 | | Sylvester: Mars makes history in the night sky
Look for planet during closestapproach in 59,619 years
By Robert Roy Britt
SPACE.COM Aug. 26 — As if executing a cosmic air kiss, Earth and Mars will come as close as they desire in Wednesday’s wee hours during a historical event that has captivated the attention of skywatchers around the globe. The two planets will be separated by 34,646,418 miles at 5:51 a.m. ET. Not since the Neanderthals shared this planet with early humans have the two worlds been so close. |
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| Sep-05-03 | | Sylvester: GameKnot question: A guy I am playing is about to lose a bunch of games on time. Is there anything I can do to at least prevent him from losing his game with me? |
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| Sep-05-03 | | AgentRgent: Sylvester, I don't know why this is posted under Einstein... I'll send you a message on Gameknot. |
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| Sep-05-03 | | Sylvester: <AgentRgent: Sylvester, I don't know why this is posted under Einstein... I'll send you a message on Gameknot.> Because it is about time! |
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| Apr-04-04 | | Lawrence: <Reisswolf>, please don't do what you threatened to do yesterday, explain the Theory of Relativity to us. Just look at the Copernican theory: who needs it? All of us know that the sun rises in the East, sets in the West, goes round the Earth in 24 hours, and the moon is not very different and the stars are almost the same. In fact, who even needed the Ptolemaic system, certainly not the ancient Egyptians, the guys who built Stonehenge, the Mayas, etc. Anyway, I'm not saying that Einstein was wrong, just that there's as much chance of our understanding Relativity as there is of our understanding Ben Lau's triple negatives, i.e. zilch. ;-) |
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| Apr-04-04 | | Bitzovich: Actually, no, i disagree.. I am very much into the subject, so Reisswolf, if you wish, please engage! |
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| Apr-04-04 | | InspiredByMorphy: This is the weirdest kibitzing Ive seen on chessgames.com hands down! :) Not that its a bad thing at all. It was cool to read everybodys kibitzes and trip out! |
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| Apr-04-04 | | MoonlitKnight: By the looks of the Picture, Albert had a bad hair day. |
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Apr-04-04
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A train one mile long runs through a tunnel in the base of a mountain. The tunnel is only 3/4 miles wide. Large iron gates can be lowered at each end of the mountain by pressing a button. The train is moving very fast, so fast, in fact, that according to relativity theory its length is much smaller than the length of the tunnel. A trigger is set up so that when the train is contained entirely within the inside of the mountain, the iron gates slam shut on both ends. Voila, we have trapped a train in a space which is not big enough to contain it! #2. THE TWINS PARADOX
Spacely and Grounder are twin brothers. Spacely gets in a spaceship and travels to Barnard star at an incredible speed (99% the speed of light) while Grounder waits on earth. According to relativity, when Spacely returns to earth he will a good deal younger than his twin brother. However, Grounder objects to his brother's youthfulness. Grounder says "From my point of view, the earth is a giant spaceship, and Spacely is a fixed object. Is it not equally correct to believe that it was me--in spaceship earth--who departed from Spacely at an incredible velocity, rather than the other way around? Therefore I should be the younger one, not him." |
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| Apr-04-04 | | square dance: <moonlitknight> nah, albert was actually having a good hair day in this picture. |
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| Apr-04-04 | | iron maiden: Seems Lasker and Einstein were colleagues in more than one field. No doubt they must have played a few games; I wonder if any of those were recorded? |
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| Apr-05-04 | | PinkPanther: <Reisswolf>
Yes, Einstein is overrated, end of of story. But concerning the comments you made about some of Newtons theories being false and not holding up under certain circumstances, I have but one thing to say about that. Did you ever stop to think that some of Newton's theories have gone up against over 300 years or scrutiny, whereas Einstein's ideas were only hatched in the last century? Give us 200 more years and I'm sure Einstein's theories will begin to fall apart one by one. |
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| Apr-05-04 | | clendenon: <PinkPanther> Who rated Einstein? You? ha ha! |
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| Apr-05-04 | | Lawrence: <Sneaky>, nice paradoxes but when I showed them to my pet chimpanzee Bonzo he indicated on his wordchart "Them gates ain't gonna stop that there train". I'm mystified by his answer to paradox no. 2, though, "Where peanut one?" |
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| Apr-05-04 | | clendenon: I dont believe people are still talking about these "paradoxes"..I analysed them when I was 8 years old, about 50 years ago..They were meant to explain relativity to the "uninitiated" in a simple, generalized way. But now its just plain childish... |
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| Apr-05-04 | | ajit: PP is the authority on ratings. Yes, PP Einstein is overrated....LOL..ROTFWL |
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| Apr-05-04 | | cr0nick: some people dont get out much |
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