The A-BOMB

One of the things some people don’t realize is that Einstein worked for the military for a time. He helped create the atomic bomb.

The Americans were not the first to come up with the idea. The Germans were. Einstein actually didn’t want to help the military in WWII at first. But in 1933 he changed his mind when Hitler rose to power in Germany. After that he talked to the president about the bomb.

http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm

The a-bomb uses a very rare isotope of Uranium called U-235. At the time it was incredibly hard to extract it though. This was mostly because it has nearly identical chemical properties to the useless isotope U-238. Making it impossible to extract the isotope using traditional chemical proses.

http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb.htm

The concept for the bomb was from Einstein’s equation E=mc^2, which means.

“In physics, in particular special and general relativity, mass–energy equivalence is the concept that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. In this concept, mass is a property of all energy, and energy is a property of all mass, and the two properties are connected by a constant. This means (for example) that the total internal energy E of a body at rest is equal to the product of its rest mass m and a suitable conversion factor to transform from units of mass to units of energy. Albert Einstein proposed mass–energy equivalence in 1905 in one of his Annus Mirabilis papers entitled "Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?"[1] The equivalence is described by the famous equation: E=mc^2”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence

Shortly after the bomb was complete the Allies demonstrated its power by dropping it on Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Japan.

Overall, this was a truly devastating weapon. It was probably one of Einstein’s biggest regrets.

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In this post I was going to post some thing resent about Einstein, buuut because he is alertly dead I’ll just have to post some thing resent related to Einstein. In this case some thing made possible by his threes in physics.

The worlds fastest stop watch. It works by flinging 2 special particles together. Then mishearing the specific light palsies it emits. But I think the article I got my information from explains it beater.

“ ‘Atomic nuclei in particle colliders like the LHC (Large Hadrian collider) at CERN or at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) can create light pulses which are still a million times shorter than that’, says Dr Andreas Ipp, of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at TU Vienna. The proposed stop clock would be able to measure time in ‘yoctoseconds’, one septillionth of a second or 10^-24 seconds. To put this in perspective, yoctoseconds are the next meaningful order of magnitude up from the time required for light to travel one Planck length, the briefest physical span of time: 10^-44 seconds. So the new stop clock would be very quick indeed.”

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/67436-cern-collider-could-be-worlds-fastest-stopwatch

For those of you how didn’t understand it is pity much a supercollider that can measure almost the shortest possible span of physical time. Pretty cool right? How about having that time the runners for the Olympic Games.

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Hello on this post I thought I would tech you some thing related to what Einstein loved to do. In this case sailing. This is a step-by-step process for folding a sail for proper storage in the winter.

1.      Rolling your sails is the best way to prevent wrinkles and crease lines in the sail. Folding the sail properly will take 2 people- one kneeling along the leech of the sail, and another along the luff.

2.      First, remove the mainsail battens from their batten pockets. Begin the folds, along the foot, both on mainsails and genoas. Pull the sail tot until all the wrinkles have bin smoothed. Fold the sail from bottom to top. While looking at the medal of the sail, place one knee on the bottom of the sail and the other about 14”-18” from the bottom. This could change with the size of the sail and how big you want it at the end.

3.      Then grab the leech at a point about the same length as you are trying fold it. Lift the material and pull it toward the bottom of the sail putting it on top of the first fold and pull it on the sides to remove any wrinkles.

4.      Repeat step 3 moving your knee gently toured the center so you don’t mess up the other folds. The material will get narrower with each fold. Carefully place each fold on top of the other ones being careful not to crease the material.

5.      Sails with plastic windows need special attentions. Fold so plastic windows lie flat in the center of a fold. Don’t let the plastic be along the middle of a crease. In cold weather, the plastic will become stiff and likely brittle. It will probably cause it to split when you unfold in the spring. Sprinkle a little a talcum powder on the plastic to prevent the plastic window from sticking to the sail while folded.

 

6.      Finish by folding the flaked sail toward the center to create a brick like shape.

http://artofsailing.info/how-to-fold-a-sail/

I found it interesting when I learned Einstein liked to sail. I gees it mite be fun. Maybe I'll try some day.

When he was yong

Hello and welcome. Since this is my second post I think I’ll cover some of the stuff people might not know about Einstein at the beginning of his life.

Einstein actually didn't start talking until he was 4 years old. He also repeated his sentences softly for many years. He also didn't start to read until was 7, because of all this he was considered retarded, slow- witted, and possibly schizophrenic. Or so people thought.

But as a matter of fact it was later revealed in his biography by his family he actually had a relatively good understanding of the world at a young age, “The same family legend, though, reports that, at the age of 2 ½ years, when his newborn sister (a Mädle) was shown to the boy, Albert, obviously expecting a toy to play with, could already verbalize his disappointment: “But where are its wheels (Rädle)?””.

http://www.albert-einstein.org/article_handicap.html

Looking back, there are a lot of misconstrued ideas about Einstein. This is largely due to the fact that not much is known about his early years. I’m really excited to see what else I learn and what will contradict or support what I think I know.

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First Post

Hello and welcome to E=Mc^2.  My name is Jason, and this is my first post. If the name hasn’t already given it away, my blog is on Albert Einstein.

A lot of people know him for his most famous equation. I shouldn’t have to repeat it. It’s the name of my blog, and even though I will cover some of the evens leading up to that and some of the evens after, I would mostly like to look at much of his other work, and some of his private life.

Things like a lot of people don’t know Einstein is actually from Germany. Or he wasn’t really the star student in school, actually he was considered a trouble maker.

Probably the biggest reason I picked Einstein is ever since I was little, I liked to know why and how. Einstein was a lot like that too. Because of that, he was a big pioneer in modern physics. Not only that but he was A.D.H.D. like I am. I gees people like Einstein have always just kind of interested me.

All of this was just a sample of what is to come. I hope you continue to read and have as much fun learning new thins about Einstein as I am going to have.