EINSTEIN: Life is one big EQUATION, do you agree?
@revellanotvanella (4033)
United States
July 5, 2009 12:10pm CST
I think this is how Einstein thought and I hope to understand Mathematical equations better so I can actually comprehend how this could be but it doesn't mean i doubt that is the case. Einstein also thought in pictures like many of the gifted do and by painting a picture in his mind he was able to come up with his theory's, like for the Relativity theory he imagined himself riding on a beam of light. Could the same be done if you envision this world to be a set of equations or one big equation?
Einstein did have a theory of EVERYTHING but it was never finished probably when he got all caught up in the obligations of the Special Relativity (led to the atom bomb) but I think his heart was set in understanding the 'MIND' of God. Einstein did lose popularity chasing an equation that could explain the physicality of everything but I think he was definitely onto something!!
Once, I was smoking and I literally saw a bunch of numbers in equations all around me and it was so extraordinary to me that I never forget it the picture stuck in my mind. Did anybody else experience anything like this??
I have also seen in a documentary that their is scientist who think that EVERYTHING consist of a pattern of geometrical shapes just by looking at a topographical map they try to decipher it using computers but that's still being worked on but its still very interesting. I actually love reading articles about physics but I wouldn't say I understand it every time, like the String Theory but it's still fascinating.
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@mentalward (14691)
• United States
6 Jul 09
I would never even TRY to understand Einstein's mind! My husband's brain works very much the same way. I can't understand the way he thinks, either, but he's almost always able to provide an answer for questions that plague others.
I don't think Einstein allowed room for mutations. There are mutations of every kind, in every species, in every physical thing on Earth. His theories might prove the "norm" but I see the abstract, the mutations, those that don't fit into his equations. THAT is what fascinates me about life.
However, after watching a special on TV about Einstein, I must say that I was truly impressed with the man, although he was only doing what came natural to him. I know this because of the way my husband's brain works. It's not normal. He gets an "answer" in his head, then works out the equation, or the process which makes this answer work, no matter how long it takes. It's just the way his brain works.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
6 Jul 09
I still find that so interesting but your right, living with someone like that might be a different story. I found interesting also is that Einstein never like the popularity and questioned how he could be so popular when he couldn't even get the same interest with his books. I think he has alot to teach about fame and fortune because so many people are so set on becoming famous but never really think out the consequences that come with it, I think you lose yourself.
I had a boyfriend like that though and I loved every minute of it because everytime we were together he was constantly lecturing me on his theory's and I was only 18 and he was 25 so its not like I could hear the same things from my friends. Even to have them WANT to think was a tasks so for someone like me with so many questions myself. His favorite quote was 'Everything is futile' and he did have a big ego so it was probably best that he ended joining the National Guard because someone like that I think can become dangerous is they don't have structure in his life (he didn't do much but hang around house). Whenever I hear Beyonce's new song where she says 'He's gotta big ego' like its something great I just remember my previous boyfriend and think, sure.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
7 Jul 09
LOL 
, you are right, does sound a lot alike--but boy did I Love loving this man and he instilled in me a zest to learn the world around me because I always felt ashamed for it, still its a shame he couldn't accept the love I had to offer but him going into the National Guard I believe gave him the feel of legitimacy he sought.
, you are right, does sound a lot alike--but boy did I Love loving this man and he instilled in me a zest to learn the world around me because I always felt ashamed for it, still its a shame he couldn't accept the love I had to offer but him going into the National Guard I believe gave him the feel of legitimacy he sought.@mentalward (14691)
• United States
7 Jul 09
Your ex boyfriend does sound like my husband. He's always right, whether he is or not. All you have to do is ask him and he'll tell you he's right. 
He knows very little about human nature, though. From studying so much, having his head stuck in books, then computers, he rarely noticed real life going on around him and now has a really big problem relating to other humans. I'm most definitely the "voice" in our household! I'm the one who talks to the neighbors, or emails them, I'm the one who answers the phone or the door when people come. He's busy hiding from them.
I know that he's very much aware of how different he is from most people and sometimes it's not hard to live with but, other times, I just want to smack him upside the head and tell him that he's NOT always right. Well, I do tell him that, I just don't smack him upside the head. LOL
We had a rather lengthy argument about the difference between knowledge and intelligence. I told him what the dictionaries all say about them: knowledge is what you learn, intelligence is what you're born with. I told him that intelligence is the ability to gain knowledge. He claims that you gain intelligence by gaining knowledge. I haven't been able to get him to understand and he refuses to look at the dictionary definitions. I guess that would be too big a blow to his precious ego, which really is overinflated! 
He knows very little about human nature, though. From studying so much, having his head stuck in books, then computers, he rarely noticed real life going on around him and now has a really big problem relating to other humans. I'm most definitely the "voice" in our household! I'm the one who talks to the neighbors, or emails them, I'm the one who answers the phone or the door when people come. He's busy hiding from them.
I know that he's very much aware of how different he is from most people and sometimes it's not hard to live with but, other times, I just want to smack him upside the head and tell him that he's NOT always right. Well, I do tell him that, I just don't smack him upside the head. LOL
We had a rather lengthy argument about the difference between knowledge and intelligence. I told him what the dictionaries all say about them: knowledge is what you learn, intelligence is what you're born with. I told him that intelligence is the ability to gain knowledge. He claims that you gain intelligence by gaining knowledge. I haven't been able to get him to understand and he refuses to look at the dictionary definitions. I guess that would be too big a blow to his precious ego, which really is overinflated! 
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
6 Jul 09
Hi Revella, Einstein was definitely a deep thinker and an intelligent and curious man. I do believe life has many "designs" about it. The universe is a well organized thing. People are a bit more complicated, and as for trying to actually interpret the true mind of God, that is beyond the capability of people to totally comprehend.
Karen@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
6 Jul 09
That is true I see some order in our Solar System. Einstein said you cannot solve a problem at the same level you started so I think he believed interpreting God was out of his grasp but at the same time he saw God in the simple things, like nature, he never stopped trying though.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
5 Jul 09
How about:
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." OR
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
OR "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
this man is amazing and I think this quote says it best:
[i]
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax[/i]. [Einstein]
@saw2207 (1359)
• United States
6 Jul 09
revellanotvanella . .
I do not think Einstein was in search of gd . . His was not a man with a life of prayer and worship. Yet he lived by a deep faith . . a faith not capable of rational foundation . . that there are laws of Nature to be discovered. His lifelong pursuit was to discover them.
Once when he was asked by an atheist, if he were in fact deeply religious, Einstein replied:
Yes, you can call it that. Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
— H. G. Kessler, The Diary of a Cosmopolitan, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), p.157; quoted in Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer (Princeton University Press, 1999) pp. 39-40.
During one of many conversations with his friend Gustav Bucky . When asked if he was a religious man with a belief in god, Einstein was quoted as saying
the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds .
Like you I would someday like to understand numbers . .but my brain just doesnt like the process and so prefers to think in colors and like Einstein I marvel at the wonder of nature
@demotay26 (26)
• United States
6 Jul 09
If you think about it, it is. You move your leg to walk with so much force. Depending on the angle and the force, and if you input numbers, you could find out how fast you leg would go down. There isn't a reason why you really couldn't make that equation about the universe. I know it would be huge, and probably would take several lifetimes to complete, but it could in theory happen.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
7 Jul 09
I think if another does set on that quest to come up with one it will not be fully embraced because it will turn out to be too 'simple' an equation after all, many scientist only work on the lines of the complex and will have a hard time comprehending it
