I know that volumes a mile high have been written about this man, but there are a group of facts that I like to keep in my mind; so I jotted them down so I could go back and do a quick review of the things I most admire about this guy.

First off, in 1905 he wrote a series of papers which appeared in the German physics journal called Annalen der Physik. This in itself is not an earth shaking item, but I wanted to remember where he published his very first papers. He, at that time was a lowly Swiss patent recorder. He was classified as a third class examiner. That’s about as low a position as you could get in that office. In fact, he had just recently filled out an application to be promoted to a second class examiner (a higher position that a third class examiner is), but he application was rejected. What an irony ! But here’s the kicker about that. In the fact that he got his work done as a patent recorder very quickly during each day, this allowed him to think and ponder over what eventually made him a genus.

During that year, Einstein submitted five papers, of which three were among the greatest in the history of physics, one that outlined “a special theory of relativity”. Here’s a really unknown fact (at least to me), is this paper on his “special theory of relativity” was called “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”. Never heard that before, but it’s true.
When he wrote this paper, he had not written any footnotes or citations. It contained almost no mathematics, and it made no mention of any work that had influenced or preceded it. He did acknowledge the help of just one individual, a colleague at the patent office named Michele Besso. This made it seem that Einstein “had reached the conclusions by pure thought, unaided, with listening to no opinions of any one else”.
His famous equation, E=mc2 did not appear with this paper. It came in a brief supplement that followed a few months later. Something else I didn’t know. The sad fact is that Einstein did not win a Nobel Peace Price for his special theory of relativity.

One of his papers, which examined the photoelectric effect won Einstein the Nobel Piece Prize. This paper outlined the facts that lead to the invention of the television.

Normal babies learn to speak words at the age of 18 months. Einstein did not speak until he was three years old. I don’t know what that means, but I thought it was an interesting fact.

He failed his college entrance exams on the first try. What’s so important about that. I don’t know, just another interesting fact.

Another interest fact is that his very first paper he ever wrote was on the physics of fluids in drinking straws.

WHAT.

And of course there’s the “general theory of relativity” that Einstein came up with. The man was definitely a human genius. Enough said.

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Here’s something to think about.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of what astronomers call the local group. It consists of the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy, the Large Magellan Cloud, the Small Magellan Cloud, and other smaller galaxies. The number is more than 54.

Somehow these galaxies stay in a group as they move away from other galaxy groups. There’s some kind of gravitational attraction that holds them all together. That’s a lot of gravity.

Now our 8 planets circle around our sun. The sun has enough gravitational pull to keep the planets from flying off into outer space. That’s a lot of gravity.

Our earth has a solid core with a molten core around it in the center that creates the magnetic field that creates something called the Van Allen Belt that circles the earth and blocks the “killer electrons” that are thrown out by our sun. By-the-way, if it were not for that magnetic field, we would all die in days.
The solid and molten cores also generates a gravitational field that keeps all things sticking to the earth instead of flying off into outer space. Just think. If you got in your car and if the gravitational field was not there, you would take off into outer space where you would die for lack of oxygen.

Now, let this sink in ! ! ! ! !
If you were to drop a tennis ball on the ground, which is what the gravitational pull did (pull the ball to the ground), you can still bend over and pick it up.

That’s amazing, the same gravitational pull that holds a car on the road, allows you to pick up the tennis ball. FIGURE THAT ONE OUT.

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First before I tell you where is really is, lets find out why it is called that. Starting back in 1763, two men, Mason and Dixon (Dixon was the surveyor) were commissioned to settle a boundary dispute between the estates of William Penn and Lord Baltimore and their respective colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states. This survey took 4 years to complete. The below map shows the original line. Not where we all thought it was. All other claims as to where the line passes through are grossly wrong.

The eleven states that seceded the union were, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

So you can see from the map that this line had nothing to do with the separation of the North and the South during the Civil War. Neither West Virginia (which was formed during the Civil War in 1863), Maryland, or Delaware was a part of the South at any time.

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The first universal law of nature that was ever discovered by a human was found by Newton. That law is as follows: if you double the distance between two objects, the attraction between them becomes four times weaker. This idea, in itself, doesn’t mean much to most people, but with this idea, you will always know your gravitational position wherever you go. This formulation serves all researchers and scientists today when they try to figure out problems concerning motion.

What’s so astonishing is that Newton figured out this idea back in 1666 when he was only 23 years old.

One of the other laws Newton came up with explained so many things. For-instance, one of his laws explained the slosh and roll of the ocean tides, the motions of the planets, why cannonballs track a particular trajectory before thudding back to the Earth, why we aren’t flung into space as the planet spins beneath us. For your information, the earth is spinning at a rate of 1,000 miles per hour. Just think of driving in an airplane at 500 mph; now double that.

He also came up with the idea that the earth is not the round ball we all think it is. As a matter of fact, the earth bulges at the equator and flattens at the poles.
This man came up with so many new ideas that have held true right through to today. He was a true genius. And all this happened back in the 1660’s.

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Astronomers estimate that there are approximately 100 billion stars in the Milky Way (the galaxy we live in). They also estimate that there are 200 billion galaxies in the universe.

That’s around 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s 200 Sextillion stars. Just for the fun of it, after billion, there’s trillion, then quadrillion, then quintillion, then comes sextillion.

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Humans are an optimistic bunch of beings. We assume that someday we will travel to the stars and beyond just like what happened in Star Trek.

The closest star to us (earth) is a star called Proxima Centauri which is one of three stars in a cluster known as Alpha Centauri. This star is 4.3 light years away. That’s 5.88 trillion miles “in one light year x 4.3 = a little over 25 trillion miles away”. A nice Sunday drive.

If, for the fun of it, there was a planet circling around this star and we wanted to go visit this planet to see if there is an atmosphere with oxygen in it, so that we may start a new civilization there, let’s see how long it would take us to get there.

First of all, the fastest space craft we have made was the New Horizons probe that went to Pluto. It’s speed got up to 106,000 mph. One light year has 5,880,000,000,000 miles in it. So if we divide 106,000 into 5,880,000,000,000, we get 55,471,698 years. If we now multiply that number by 4.3 (remember, the distance from earth to Proxima Centauri), we get a time to get to the nearest star at 238,528,301.4 years. Raise your hand if you think this is going to happen.

Even if we come up with a space ship that can travel at the speed of 500,000 mph, it would still take 47,705,661 years to get there. That’s millions.

So in the end of our calculations, we can forget about traveling to the nearest star. IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNTILL WE CAN TRAVEL AT HALF THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

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In November of 2008, the Lead Trustee for the soon to be established Aevia Charitable Trust (The ACT), gave a talk on the carryover from person to person, or from one generation to another, that permits us to stand on the shoulders of greatness. The talk included the following statement:

“The scientific quest, the curiosity that leads to adventure and discovery yields knowledge that guides us along useful and progressive paths of physical, intellectual and spiritual growth. The collaborative urge, the desire to socialize and the ability to harmonize all point to a Spirit of Counsel prompting the exchange of ideas and opinions as we learn to cooperate for mutual benefit. Such an endowment transcends natural law and provides further evidence of mind ministry.

The religious impulse serves to differentiate the soul deprived creature from those with the capacity to appreciate origins. The worshipful expressions of the appreciative individual create deep channels through which wisdom may flow. And this wisdom yields even greater appreciation. And so we come full circle to the rolling tides. A process that favors the granularity, particularity and the specificity from which meaningful constructs and useful value propositions are built.”