Einstein, His life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson

This is the first “real” physics post here. For the past couple of weeks I have been reading the Biography of Albert Einstein. I have only been ready little by little so I haven’t got really far. Only to the point of the start of World War I. It is really interesting that Einstein had so much trouble with his detachment of being human to his family, and to see the beginnings of his role as world ambassador. His struggle with his own shortcomings caused by his carelessness in school caused so much trouble in his formulation of The General Theory of Relativity. He thought that the most of high level geometry was not needed for use in physics and special features of high mathematics. Also his own doubts about what is real and what is just fancy speculation form mathematicians. The speculations into string theory does apply as if the research into the one theory can unify the atomic world with the macroscopic one of General Relativity. Earlier this summer I read the the book The Elegant Universe by Brain Greene. The more I read into this book the more I felt this does not describe how I think the universe should work. Also keep in mind that Einstein, even until his death, maintained that quantum theory did not fit his universe, in which he had helped create, kept and open mind towards that. I think it is good to keep an skeptical mindset on any theory until it has been thoroughly proven in the lab. I have become more of an skeptic as I read more into these Grand Unifying Theories. I have a little of my own, but I don’t have the tools and the time to explain it properly and also more insight into the universe.

Well, it has been a fun week.