Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for 9 Years
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Einstein fails to get into college
1:40 Einstein’s grades at Zurich Polytechnic
2:02 Einstein irritates his university professors
2:51 Meeting Mileva Maric and illegitimate daughter Lieserl
4:40 Einstein fails to get a job
6:34 Working as a third-rate patent clerk
8:18 The ‘miracle’ year in 1905 starting with the photoelectric effect paper
9:10 Brownian Motion
9:40 Special theory of relativity
10:55 E = MC2
11:26 Einstein still struggles to get a job following 1905 papers
12:52 Falling in love with his Berlin cousin
13:09 Einstein and wife divorce
13:57 General theory of relativity
15:22 How the sun warps starlight
16:02 Einstein’s controversial character
17:21 Dropping the atomic bomb
18:25 Einstein troubled by quantum entanglement
19:05 Struggle to find a uniform field theory
Special thanks to Soojin Han for permission to feature her performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3
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Italian cemetery where Hermann Einstein is buried: Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, Netherlands showcasing Einstein’s fountain pen Museum Boerhaave, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
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Nikola Tesla, I'm not sure if it's been covered already, im pretty new to the channel
Please make a video about John von Neumann. He was one of the smartest scientists of the 20th century in terms of raw intelligence. He was a polymath with a photographic memory who, at six years old, could divide two eight-digit numbers in his head and converse in Ancient Greek.
Geniuses of his era called him a genius. For example, George Dantzig, who accidentally solved two famous unsolved problems in statistics because he was late to class and thought they were homework. The story of von Neumann's genius goes like this:
When George Dantzig brought von Neumann an unsolved problem in linear programming "as I would to an ordinary mortal", on which there had been no published literature, he was astonished when von Neumann said "Oh, that!", before offhandedly giving a lecture of over an hour, explaining how to solve the problem using the hitherto unconceived theory of duality.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, the iconic 1897 tale of a vampire from Transylvania, is often thought to be inspired by a formidable 15th-century governor from present-day Romania named Vlad the Impaler.= VLAD TzEPES fighting Ottoman Empire.
robert boyle or humphry davy
a lesson to every professor, the best and brightest, the most inquisitive and curious, are not necessarily the A students.
Grades are only a snapshot, peoples understanding and thought process can evolve overtime, a lot of people let the grades stop them from pursuing it without realizing they have potential.
Note: May not apply if the teachers, professors are open-minded, inquisitive and curious themselves.
tbh, I think its more of a mistake on Einstein part than professors rejecting him. you're saying this from hindsight bias
how come they could see if they dont have the eye for it?
So the woke schools changing the grading standard were on the correct side of educational history?
So he did find the field equation at this death bed, but the nurse didnt understood german 😮
😅
Little known fact. After he published the Special Relativity papers, he applied for a job in the Balkans in the Kingdom of Serbia as a university professor in Belgrade. But he was rejected because of the language barrier and not speaking Serbian.
Lucky Einstein
@@FPSIreland2such an unnecessary comment
Can't find any reference of it, also doesn't sound too credible given Serbia close ties to Germany at the time and Germany's general prestige in physics I doubt it would be much different than teaching physics in English nowadays!
It is a question for the collective West because it is about ignoring. Fortunately, Einstein's archives are still mostly located in the East, in Israel. In his early stage he was on good terms with the Serbian community through his first wife. You probably never heard that he got the idea for Str during a visit to Serbia and the Balkans. You should keep in mind that the United States met him for the first time only after his emigration and when he gained media attention from the national media there. The relations between Serbia and Germany at the beginning of the 20th century were better than the relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
@@petarswift5089 yeah that's why I question your assertion that the language barrier was the reason he didn't teach in Serbia, which you didn't address weirdly!
People: "Why don't you get a job?"
Me: "Einstein couldn’t get a job for nine years!"
actually 2 years, she meant "at the university"
This is probably the best description of success. "He did his most important work and nobody cared at all"
It isn't till later when the implications of the success show up does the impact of the stone hitting the water send out the waves...
Because he was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Take your 💊💊💊💊💊 brother!
His resilience in the face of educational and professional setbacks is a powerful lesson on the importance of persistence and staying true to one's intellectual passions. 🔑
Some say it is hard to find job today )
100 years ago it took 9 years and 4 revolutionary publications to get position according to your degree
I Don't know why I am obsessed with Einstein but I loved him so much since I first heard about him
He will always be in my mind for making me love physics.....
Atleast the eyes in pagan era of that time can't be used anymore
If your happy and you know it clap your hands! 😂
Same , He lead me to my hypotheses on the Multi Multiverse.
@@ossiedunstan4419 multiverse is dogma and pseudo science....
The "greatest scientist of all time" was a complete fraud. Please start using your brain.
Same! 😂
One of your best documentaries yet. Longer, more in-depth=better.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger🎶
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
The world is grateful that Einstein’s parents didn’t name him Frank .
Damn 😂😂😂
His First wife was the mathematical genius…..she taught him and developed the time concept during a train ride, which she shared with him…
People would love to believe that, but no.
@@mark9294why would they love to believe that if it is true? Strange. Patronizing.
I'm really curious what he said at last, the nurse didn't know german, it will probably remain a mystery forever
It was some sort of equation, but the nurse was not a mathematician.
Probably?
So he's not cared enough at the end? Probably they should have had a recorder near him all the time.
@@centuraxaum5951 should've would've could've
Perhaps he did unlock the secret to the theory of everything and told it to the nurse, who, like the world, was not ready for it. We may never know.
Beautifully done. Thank you.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33
Uuuuh, that was heavy! I think you must be in the wrong page here; Perhaps 'Mr. Rogers' is closer to your IQ!
How many genuiuses go unnoticed & how many go waste due to politics or inter personal issues or even plain discrimination
How many charlatans get praised by the media as demi-gods. Looking at you Elon!
Would you rather score a 50 on every test, or a 100 on half, and a 0 on half?
Autism sucks...
How many charlatans are being praised by the media? Looking at you Elon!
@@growtocycle6992 ???
The elevator animation is wrong. It shows the elevator moving with constant speed after a brief initial acceleration-that is, a real-life elevator. Whereas Einstein-clearly not an engineer-imagined elevators that were constantly accelerating, whether moving upward or downward. He wouldn't have discovered General Relativity in a real-life elevator.
A proud Indian engineer 😂
Elevators cannot constantly accelerate downwards.
@@gary_rumain_you_peons Real-life elevators don't, naturally. There's air, and eventually, the ground itself. An ideal elevator for Einstein would be a nightmare in the real world. 🤣
@@i2keepitrealInreseach LMFAO, Ya right, he really is proud of that stupid shit he just said LOL. Made my day.
@@gary_rumain_you_peons "Elevators cannot constantly accelerate downwards." -- they can, when the breaks go bad 😂
Thank you for a fantastic presentation;
Loved the infographics and photographs which were very apt to the topic.
Please keep them coming!!
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Physicists in his time (and still now) weren’t interested in how the universe worked, they were primarily interested in WHO is saying this is correct.
Without Max Planck vouching for Einstein, Einstein would not have ever got a decent job or be known.
Incredible and inspiring thank you, was just feeling like shit this morning, and this picked me right back up.
Same here... Years without getting things done as dreamt!
Reminding me that Einstein himself had to struggle that hard And in an almost humilliating way Made me Feel Refreshing Energy!
Thank You, Thank You Very Much!
Love these scientist docuseries
This is really well presented and narrated.
Totally agree.One tiny critique.The narrator should look into voice lesson.Her voice is naturally beautiful though.
Really? He was a “pacifist” but he was totally behind Israel…
@@ronmullick253 the voice is AI generated 😁
@@uzefulvideos3440 That does make sense.Maybe it is the disinterested quality in her voice.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Mileva looked like his mother!
Have 😢 been searching for this video ,since a year .
Ngl I wish your channel had more subscribers because your videos are so insightful and interesting 😭
Don’t dismiss Mileva Maric’s contribution to Einstein’s work so easily. She did much more than type up his papers! The very fact she was the only woman classmate showed the extent to which she was valued in her own right. After marriage they had at least two more children but she suffered from severe post partum depression. I disagree that Mileva was ugly. After Einstein grew tired of her illness he left and married his first cousin. I would never call his cousin ugly, but her picture is readily available.
Yeah, Einstein's cousin-wife was actually quite an ugly hag compared to Mileva Maric. He should have stayed loyal to Mileva. Probably would have come up with a grand unified theory then. Also shouldn't have told the US of A to build a nuke.
I'm gonna build a time machine and tell him about it.
A😮
He stole her ideas !
@@shantishanti1949 yeah just like marie curie stole from her husband.
Yeah the Disney series was very eye opening and quite saddening.
I love your channel
I love the historical origins and significance of science
You unfold it beautifully
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ah the internet.Where people can puff themselves up by calling a genius a fruad.And then present a sophomoric,useless and pathetic video to prove their lack of intellect.
Hi Cindy, I love your videos and I'm wondering if you can make a bio video on mathematicians like Abel, Euclid,Euler or Gauss
Nice how this intimate emotional climax in the end is immediately soulcrushingly devastated by an add for brilliant. Now I am depressed again.
I like your voice😊 it's clear and calm.
What a lovely and well made video! One of the best I have seen on Albert Einstein, and a LOT of documentaries were made on his life and his legacy.
Very nice video, as always
'Space and Time are products of our thinking not a situation within which we live'
"besides her modest looks" c'mon man
One thing I recall reading in Einstein's English version of "Relativity: the Special and General Theory" was a comment he made about children. He recalled that every school child (German) knew the speed of light. When I read that I thought the education system he grew up with was different than mine. I don't recall ever learning about the speed of light in elementary school and not until much later. If I heard it, I don't recall hearing it and it would only have been mentioned in passing. Whatever shortcomings Einstein attributed to German education, they were able to make some significant contributions to scientific thought and technological development and still do today. That isn't to say I didn't like my American education, I would like to have had both.
I was born in 1970 and my father told me about E=mc2 when I was only 7. I was fascinated by this and then looked up the speed of light in an encyclopedia. Then of course facts like light taking roughly 11 minutes to travel from the sun to earth ect. learning things like this early can really open you mind.
When Einstein's fiance complained about his not being ready to marry he developed his Theory of Relative Stability.
It might be apocryphal, but I heard a story that later in life Einstein thanked the Swiss patent office for not giving him enough work to do so he had time to pursue his own ideas.
Anyone connecting Terrence Howard, magnetism, relativity ?
A very good short 'Bio' of Einstein!
Thanks a lot.
From someone who was a very happy 'Patent Clerk' for 16y.
He was on Family Guy, he stole " Johnsons theory of relativity from Mr. Johnson when he brought it into the patent office. He also stole the Shrinky Dink formula from God. funniest stuff I ever saw
Entangled particles do not "influence" each other, neither they "communicate" it's just that the information we have about one particle immediatly is able to tell us information about the other particle
I believe there is somewhat an error in the "Einstein's Nine-Year Struggle to Find a Job" video.
In 1905 Einstein published four, not five papers. The video says that there were two concerning molecules. (Wikipedia agrees with the "four" papers.) There was one paper covering molecules/atoms/Brownian motion and his doctoral thesis, which isn't always considered "a paper" and also had a significant error. It was also his second attempt, his first being in 1901, so it wasn't necessarily novel.
His 1905 doctoral thesis is usually not included because there was an error in his calculations that was later corrected after experimentation showed that his value was likely incorrect. Years later a student provided a fix. It was also likely a revision and extension of his 1901 work.
Einstein had another doctoral thesis in 1901 which was rejected/withdrawn, also concerning the kinetic theory of gasses, but that paper is lost to history.
As a theoretical physics masters graduate, it makes me feel more relieved to know that Einstein also went through a period of difficulty.
Just need to keep going!
A testament to the complexity of the human mind, and the ridiculousness of the modern educational system.
Off topic but curious as to where the narrator grew up as I have never heard the word "pollen" pronounced this way before - at about 9:30 in the video regarding Brownian motion
Almost like she's saying Poland. But the way she pronounces water suggests that she's an American (East coast but not North-East).
The same thing they saying about Terrence Howard were the same thing they were saying about Einstein.
In several places in this video you can spot the foundations of most of what is wrong with this world.
Those grade records list Minkowski... is that the Hermann Minkowski?!
Its not "sole is". Its "saul iss". Solace.
When it comes to the Bomb, Einstein wrote the letter, but it was at the request of Leo Szilard. See Kevles.
Well done.
14:17 I am not sure what it means to "feel your own weight"? Does this mean that your legs will "feel" that they are "working" more to hold you up? I guess I am curious as to which part/muscles of your body, coupled to which part of your sensory system/CNS, is involved?
I love you’re videos, i really love these things but i couldn’t find any good explanation about it. But you do it just perfectly that even a 10 year old can understand😊
Fascination video! I really loved it!! BTW, your videos are amazing!! I really liked most of the videos and it really gives valuable learning!!
this was great!
He couldn't get a job because McDonalds wasn't around!!!
You are brilliant at what you do. Top notch.
At Lake Eola I went to the back of my eyes and Einstein appeared I heard what was around GOD when form. Time and space go on for ever.
Loved this piece on Einstein. 🙏
I need a similar job to solve the P-NP problem!
AI will do it
At 1:22 Aarau is a mid-sized town, capital of the canton of Aargau, not a village
Please make a video on Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose as he was father of Quantum Statistics.
Think "Chauncey Gardner" from the movie "Being There." He was doing the bidding of the controllers. They needed more BS to convince the people of the universe and such. They made him into a genius. He was a nothing.
Sweet moments in time, Thank you, you have a special gift, details, your got all details. This video is the best..Thank you,
Always in space and time.
Reference always triumph Skills
Thank you.
Well, the Einstein-Szilard letter from August 1939 didn't cause much action in the US. The immediate consequences were a relatively small research program. In fact, it was the Frisch-Peierls memorandum from March 1940 (which in historical review already contained the schematic of a blueprint for the gun-type design of the atomic bomb) which led to the activity of the MAUD committee and the Tube Alloys project in the UK later on, way before the start of the Manhattan project. And it was Mark Oliphant (a guy from Australia, who was a member of the MAUD committee and who then primarily worked on the new RADAR technology, and who finally got lucky to have Rudolf Peierls sitting nearby in the same building (who could solve one or two difficult problems for Oliphant - despite the fact that Peierls and Frisch didn't posses security clearance at that time ;-)) visiting the US in August 1941 who reminded the scientific community in the US about the existence of the MAUD committee report. That report had been sent to the US before, but Lyman Briggs (director of the US Uranium Committee) had put that report into his safe. And had not shown it to any member of his own committee. There was meeting then on 26th of August 194 with Mark Oliphant and the Uranium Committee to discuss the issue. Finally, Oliphant met with his friend Ernest Lawrence on September 23th in Berkeley, where Lawrence did receive a copy of the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. And Lawrence then informed Robert Oppenheimer to check the figures. But this it not the end of the story. Mark Oliphant convinced Ernest Lawrence to convert his 37-inch cyclotron into a giant mass spectrometer for electromagnetic isotope separation. So, in the end, it was some guy from Australia and not the the (first) Einstein-Szilard letter who caused the action. IMHO, that famous Einstein-Szilard letter gets a little bit too much attention. Probably because of the name of Albert Einstein in it. ;-)
This is a marvelous presentation of science, history, and Einstein. I love your presentation style and narration! I wish i can be tour assistant to learn how to create this kind of educational videos. Where does one learn about these processes of clipping vidros, photos, and stringing them into a story with voice recordings?
I love anything and everything about Sir Einstein.
ok but what about his mewing streak
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Albert einstein had OCD. As do many scientists and entertainers to this day. Can you imagine if he were born in our time? And they were shoving drugs down his throat to help with his OCD! My youngest son, who is a man now, was borderline OCD when he was in grade and high school. All they did was try to convince me to get him Adderall. I wasn't going for any of that, especially when two Psychiatrist told me told me it wasn't necessary. They wanted me to give him drugs to make their job easier. Not everyone learns at the same pace.
You have no idea what OCD is or what OCD drugs do.
Let me guess. Also a anti vacciner?
@@AL-lh2ht the avg anti vacciner knows more about chemistry and drugs than probably the vacciners...
@@AL-lh2ht You've obviously had too many with an attendant charisma bypass.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@AL-lh2ht Your kidding right?
What AI models and agent setup are you using?
Gregor Mendel wrote papers equally ground breaking on genetics hoping to secure a position as a lab tech at Charles University; he did not make it.
lorentz came up wtih E= MC2, albert understood it.
I know this video is to embellish and glorify A. Einstein for his extraordinary achievements in maths and physics, but there was a hiatus in his trajectory as a human being when he wrote a letter of conditions to Mileva. The letter was of extreme disdain towards her and his children. Meaning that we are 2 sides of a coin, stupid at times.
Einstein actually thought of a person falling from a building…that was the happiest thought of his life.
It is who you know and kissing the higher ups. A little flexabilty goes a long way.
Video editing best ❤🎉
Starting to think Einstein may have gotten some of his ideas from sitting all day reading all those patents at the Patent office.
And he was almost definitely on the ASD spectrum.
You do not need to be moving to experience assimultaniety of simultaneous events. Movement is irrelevant.
Einstein was bustin nut and got a whole family the world doesn’t know about
Great summation of Einstein's life and work.
Great video on Einstein.
Haven't had a job in 76 years and don't ever want one.
Thanks
Thanks so much Maurice, this is really appreciated!
For all students, who fail.
Interesting, thank you. Also, I am curious: Did you discover anything about how Hermann Minkowski treated Einstein before Einstein became famous?
At 14:24 what I found crazy is this thought experiment is actually wrong..
Thank you! Very interesting!🌱
Proof that the straight path to where the future saw you going never existed.
Only lucky accidents (meeting the right teacher) plus persistence lead to those outcomes we profit from so much.
Great dude, able to imagine some insane thought experiments. He was also lucky: when his math was wrong the measurements weren't made (remember 1914 in Russia and WW1?) and when he desperately needed to right his math Hilbert was a gentleman. And if I'm not wrong he didn't deliver much in his last 40 years ...
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The best way to go to a new place is that
19:53
19:56
Two photos, can you identify the other people? Note the signature on the chest of the man to his right in one of the photos, but it's hard to make out.
god he's so relatable
10:28 This is not really what relativity of simultaneity is. What's described in the video is merely a difference in _visual observation._ Also sound behaves that way. But relativity of simultaneity in Einstein's theory is about an effect that persists even _after_ the purely visual effects are subtracted out. (Meaning, the effects due just to the finite speed of signal propagation.)
Special relativity can describe acceleration. You just take the second derivative w.r.t. to the time in the inertial frame.
I've heard of several different explanations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity since a very long time now without ever understanding it at all. Today, I heard you make a key comment in your explanation of the Einstein's free fall and accelerating upward elevator scenario that both gravity and acceleration are one and the same thing. Though I've known this concept for a long time now ever since having studied about it in high school, the fact that this leads to the explanation of Einstein's theory of Relativity is a revelation for me in its own. Now all that remains is to learn the math used for describing acceleration in curved geometric spaces and then I should be able to understand the theory that has evaded my comprehension for 25 years already now.
Thank you very much for providing this insight.
I recommend Prof. Frederic Schuller's lecture series for the Heraeus Winter school on gravity and light. It's here on TH-cam. Best, most understandable introduction to GR that I've seen. The professor won some award for his teaching skill.
@@epajarjestys9981 the best way to learn is by reading the original papers of Einstein since they are very detailed and he was an amazing writer.
biographies of 'Al Kuarizmi' who invented algebra(modern math)
Algebra comes from India, u thieve
Great video and great explanations.
It should be noted, Einstein was fundamental in creating and, by his skepticism, shaping Quantum Mechanics. Plus he also used a statistical approach, just that he felt the future would find a more precise method, which has been fundamentally disabused as a notion. (IOW, his hope was a wrong gut feeling). Yet his contributions still rock quantum physics today, ie his proposed thought experiment proving causality or not. He felt it would prove causality, and it ultimately proved the opposite, a proof that HE provided the original concept as part author.