Einstein and Vaudeville: The Path Not Taken

[beamjockey]

I was reading a discussion about musicians who went into astronomy and physics over at "Bad Astronomy."

I've always been impressed by a small thing I once read in Ronald W. Clark's Einstein: The Life and Times. Albert Einstein, and relativity, became famous rather suddenly in 1919 when Eddington's solar-eclipse observations confirmed the

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[mbcrui]

Think of where things like the evolution 'controversy' would be if people actually understood the basis of the theory (and about what a theory *is*) instead of the spin that each side puts on the theory...

I have no problems at all with the popularization of science-- isn't that what Carl Sagan did?

[timill]

...and then there's Alexander Borodin...

[wcg]

Until one day there was a particle physicist who played a ukulele...

[archiver_tim]

Maybe the filk room would have been invented sooner. Invented is an akward term, 'came into being' would be better.

[serge_lj]

Argh. You've got me thinking of Yahoo Serious as Young Einstein.