Monday 2 July 2012

How Einstein Became A Genius?

1."loved to voyage" When Einstein was in college at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, he fell in love with sailing(sea voyage). He would often take a boat out onto a lake, pull out a notebook, relax, and think. Even though Einstein never learned to swim, he kept sailing as a hobby throughout his life. 2."His Violin" Einstein's mother, Pauline, was an accomplished pianist and wanted her son to love music too, so she started him on violin lessons when he was six years old. Unfortunately, at first, Einstein hated playing the violin. He would much rather build houses of cards, which he was really good at (he once built one 14 stories high!), or do just about anything else. When Einstein was 13-years old, he suddenly changed his mind about the violin when he heard the music of Mozart. With a new passion for playing, Einstein continued to play the violin until the last few years of his life. For nearly seven decades, Einstein would not only use the violin to relax when he became stuck in his thinking process, he would play socially at local recitals or join in  impromptu groups such as Christmas carolers who stopped at his home.3."A Compass" when Albert Einstein was five years old, he got sickness on the bed, his father showed him a simple pocket compass. Einstein was mesmerized. What force exerted itself on the little needle to make it point in a single direction? his father was unable to ans... so this question haunted Einstein for many years and has been noted as the beginning of his fascination with science. 4 No Socks Part of Einstein's charm was his disheveled look. In addition to his uncombed hair, one of Einstein's peculiar habits was to never wear socks. Whether it was while out sailing or to a formal dinner at the White House, Einstein  went without socks everywhere. To Einstein, socks were a pain because they often would get holes in them. Plus, why wear both socks and shoes when one of them would do just fine?. 5. "His Brain" When Einstein died in 1955, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered, as was his wish. However, before his body was cremated, pathologist Thomas Harvey at Princeton Hospital conducted an autopsy in which he removed Einstein's brain. Rather than putting the brain back in the body, Harvey decided to keep it, ostensibly for study. Harvey did not have permission to keep Einstein's brain, but days later, he convinced Einstein's son that it would help science. Shortly thereafter, Harvey was fired from his position at Princeton because he refused to give up Einstein's brain. For the next four decades, Harvey kept Einstein's chopped-up brain (Harvey had it cut into over 200 pieces) in two mason jars with him as he moved around the country. Every once in a while, Harvey would slice off a piece and send it to a researcher. Finally, in 1998, Harvey returned Einstein's brain to the pathologist at Princeton Hospital. 6."He Designed a Refrigerator" Twenty-one years after writing his Special Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein invented a refrigerator that operated on alcohol gas. The refrigerator was patented in 1926 but never went into production because new technology made it unnecessary. Einstein invented the refrigerator because he read about a  family that was poisoned by a sulphur dioxide-emitting refrigerator. 7. "Smoker" Einstein loved to smoke. As he walked between his house and his office at Princeton, one could often see him followed by a trail of smoke. Nearly as part of his image as his wild hair and baggy clothes was Einstein clutching his trusty briar pipe. In 1950, Einstein is noted as saying, "I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs," Although he favored pipes, Einstein was not one to turn down a cigar or even a cigarette. 8. "Offered for presidency" Presidency of Israel A few days after Zionist leader and first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann died on November 9, 1952,Einstein was asked if he would accept the position of being the second president of Israel. Einstein, age 73, declined the offer. In his official letter of refusal, Einstein stated that the not only lacked the "natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people," but also, he was getting old.   9. "Married with Cousin" After Einstein divorced his first wife, Mileva Maric, in 1919, he married his cousin, Elsa Loewenthal (nee Einstein). How closely were they related? Quite close. Elsa was actually related to Albert on both sides of his family. Albert'smother and Elsa's mother were sisters, plus Albert's father and Elsa's father were cousins. When they were both little, Elsa and Albert had played together; however, their romance only began once Elsa had married and divorced Max Loewenthal.10 "Einstein's Daughter"  An Illegitimate Daughter In 1901, before Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric were married, the college sweethearts took a romantic getaway to Lake Como in Italy. After the vacation, Mileva found herself pregnant. In that day and age, illegitimate children were not uncommon and yet they were also not accepted by society. Since Einstein did not have the money to marry Maric nor the ability to support a child, the two were not able to get married until Einstein got the patent job over a year later. So as not to besmirch Einstein's reputation, Maric went back to her family and had the baby girl, whom she named Lieserl. Although we know that Einstein knew about his daughter, we don't actually know what happened to her. There are but just a few references of her in Einstein's letters, with the last one in September 1903. It is believed that Lieserl either died after suffering from scarlet fever at an early age or she survived the scarlet fever and was given up for adoption. Both Albert and Mileva kept the existence of Lieserl so secret that Einstein scholars only discovered her existence in recent years.

Friday 29 June 2012

share your sorrows with Virtual Humans

"Near future people will be able to share their emotions with Virtual Human" French scientists claimed. The latest invantions are including the development  of  long-term relations between humans and virtual agents. Professor Catherine Pelachaud, ditrector of that research has said that  the virtual humans are able to understand your language and your face expressions and can communicate using different facial expressions, head motions, as well as hand  In addition, as part of another project, entitled CALLAS , the French scientists are trying to create virtual humans that could be used in interactive televisions and storytelling .In this feild the latest inventions that they have made, is a Prototype it shows the emotional interaction between the real humans and the virtual agent. The latter acts like a virtual member of the audience, being able to relate to the human audience through webcam and mic. "The agent, through its participation of watching the movie and its display of emotion could enhance the emotional experience of the audience," says Pelachaud.  She further said that the human and the virtual audience respond to a virtual scenario, which involves a second virtual agent. The second virtual human walks around a kitchen where different objects randomly do fear-provoking things. As these things (such as a knife that all of a sudden stars flying towards them) take place, both real and  virtual members of the audience respond with fear, and the virtual agent in the scene shows the same reaction. The study of the French scientists is funded by the French government and European Union .

Thursday 28 June 2012

Albert Einstein's Life

Albert Einstein was the world's Famous scientist ever born.He changed
the way, people observed our universe and the world in first sight.
Einstein provided many theories that proved that matter and energy
are related to each other. Most of the scientists could not understand
his theories on that time, but few.
Enistein was born in Germany in 1879, he was a dull student in his
studies and did only the works in whome he was intersted just like
science and mathematic subjects.
Day by day he got so much interst in the mysteries of the universe.
After school he tried to get a job of teaching in Switzerland but could
not succeed, and went to Swiss Patent Office in Bern as a clerk where he studied
what people had already invented.
On those days he did second marry in Berlin with his cousin Elsa after getting divorce from his first wife and a classmate.
Albert Einstein became well known personality after developing
some theroies and was invited to the universities all around the world
to narrate his theories.
Finally in 1921 he got Nobel Prize in physics.
Einstein was against the NAZIS and his black thoughts to control the world
in the retrun Nizes burned his theories and books.Then Einstein left Germany
and went to united states, because of World wars. In 1939 as world warII was
finshing he was known that German scientist are trying to make a BOMB
which can kill the thousand people just in a second so he wrote a letter
to the presisdent of U.S.A, to warn and suggest that they too make that bomb.
MANHATTAN project was started by American, which led to the construction
of ATOMIC BOMB in 1941.Two of these bombs were dropped over Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This made Einstein so sad because he wanted the world to use the Atomic energy as
a source of Energy. then he died in April 18,1955.