Obsure Einstien and Millikan

This podcast while driving looks as getting into the feel of the times, and behind the scenes.

Most people think of illicit affairs. There were some of these but the reality of these are in fact more confronting and bizarre that anyone could accept.

I think any off script fact like Einstein working on white goods is greeted with the retort of "What's the importance of that?" and about one millisecond before all listening stops. I am personally going to have to work through the vacuum of interest in any investigation that is outside the safety of accepted wisdom. The fulcrum upon which interpretation turns is the odd circumstantial gems that connect episodes. The young Einstein comes from a family that has white-good success snatched from them. He works in a patent office where the reason behind everything is obtaining and monopoly in exchange for disclosure. Then his student Szilard comes to him with a white good that forges a type of relationship which then lead to sparking of the Manhattan A bomb project.

I suppose what I really find fascinating is the silence that follows the censure of following these secondary links. What is fascinating in not the silence after but the silence of thought before.

Then we have Millikan, some one who hates Einstein. So deeply flawed. He holds onto the lumernifous ether like Macbeth in Shakespeare. Of nuclear energy is thinks it is a flash in the pan - baloney. I think the issue for us 90 years later is that there is still such negative energy at work and we seem oblivious to it.

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