“Einstein was distrustful of elaborate mathematics, odd as that sounds for a mathematical physicist. There was, Einstein considered, too much math around, and one could waste far too much time on it. His talent, despite the image in popular culture,… — Trevelyan Copy Share
“Einstein was distrustful of elaborate mathematics, odd as that sounds for a mathematical physicist. There was, Einstein considered, too much math around, and one could waste far too much time on it. His talent, despite the image in popular culture, lay not so much in mathematics – which he always found difficult – but in exceptional clarity of conceptual thinking.… — Trevelyan Copy Share
“And everything we know about time, everything we can know about time, comes from the study of clocks. Time, Clocks and Relativity There are many popular books attempting to explain Relativity. In general, they take the same approach that we do with university undergraduates, revisiting the angst of physicists in the late 19th century as they struggled with the… — Trevelyan Copy Share