Albert Einstein

Einstein's Work Place







All images are taken in April 1995 at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA by photographer Ralph Morse.


I can see that Albert Einstein and I have at least one thing in common - a desk with an overview of documents. Some call it a mess. It is definitely NOT. I'm sure Einstein and I would agree on that. :-)

I named my first cat Einstein. She was a semi-wild Norwegian Forest Cat and very intelligent.

A woman, the librarian Fantova, took notes from her conversations with Albert Einstein the last year or so of his life. I'd like to read those one day.



Leisure Time



Photo: E. O. Hoppe, 1921

Albert Einstein also has something in common with my niece it seems, namely playing the violin. I bet my niece is better than Einstein was or could ever have been at playing this instrument, though. :-)




Photo: B L Bye
My niece Sarah Erin Bye playing violin




Einstein on his sailboat on lake Saranac, US, July 03, 1936

Albert Einstein was fond of sailing. I totally agree with him though it was an 'acquired taste' for me. Today I love sailing and have had several of my best moments in nature at sea. :-)


These Are Fragments of Einstein's Life

Einstein Rings

Cosmic Ballet





Einstein's Gravitational Ring Dance

Einstein pulsar

Getting Funky with Einstein



Yes, he was right!

Start the funk by clicking on the image. It's groovy!



Unique Stellar System Gives Einstein a Thumbs-Up

Taking advantage of a unique cosmic coincidence, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. The new data indicate that the famed physicist's 93-year-old theory has passed yet another test.

Gravitational Lensing

Mathematics and Gravitational Lensing



Einstein rings produced by a galaxy behind the lensing galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the SLACS Survey team: A. Bolton (Harvard/Smithsonian), S. Burles (MIT), L.
Koopmans (Kapteyn), T. Treu (UCSB), and L. Moustakas (JPL/Caltech).



A Match in Heaven


Look here and see the magic of mathematics.






A gift for my mathematics loving friends and worshipers of theory. :-)