Talk:Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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Result: Kept, with thanks to XOR'easter for their hard work. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:11, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

It looks like there's some uncited text and other problems including

• If one end of a wormhole was positively charged, the other end would be negatively charged. These properties led Einstein to believe that pairs of particles and antiparticles could be described in this way.
• Later, after the death of his second wife Elsa, Einstein was briefly in a relationship with Margarita Konenkova. Konenkova was a Russian spy who was married to the Russian sculptor Sergei Konenkov (who created the bronze bust of Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton).[67][68][failed verification]*the Einstein-Cartan theory section
• The equations of motion section
• The Adiabatic principle and action-angle variables section
• In "Über die Entwicklung unserer Anschauungen über das Wesen und die Konstitution der Strahlung" ("The Development of our Views on the Composition and Essence of Radiation"), on the quantization of light, and in an earlier 1909 paper, Einstein showed that Max Planck's energy quanta must have well-defined momenta and act in some respects as independent, point-like particles. This paper introduced the photon concept (although the name photon was introduced later by Gilbert N. Lewis in 1926) and inspired the notion of wave–particle duality in quantum mechanics. Einstein saw this wave–particle duality in radiation as concrete evidence for his conviction that physics needed a new, unified foundation.
• The matter waves section
• Although he was lauded for this work, his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. Notably, Einstein's unification project did not accommodate the strong and weak nuclear forces, neither of which was well understood until many years after his death. Although mainstream physics long ignored Einstein's approaches to unification, Einstein's work has motivated modern quests for a theory of everything, in particular string theory, where geometrical fields emerge in a unified quantum-mechanical setting.
• The other investigations section
• Einstein suggested to Erwin Schrödinger that he might be able to reproduce the statistics of a Bose–Einstein gas by considering a box. Then to each possible quantum motion of a particle in a box associate an independent harmonic oscillator. Quantizing these oscillators, each level will have an integer occupation number, which will be the number of particles in it.
• Many popular quotations are often misattributed to him.[example needed]

and possibly more. Though some of these could have been general referenced and I missed it. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:01, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Seems rather odd to open this without editing the article yourself or raising any issues on the article talkpage first. --JBL (talk) 18:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

 This review was put on hold for two months to relieve pressure on topic editors at GAR. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:57, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

On a first reading, none of the uncited statements look atrocious. Various standard textbooks/histories/biographies should cover them, I think. XOR'easter (talk) 18:56, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Working through these as I find the time. XOR'easter (talk) 21:04, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

All the {{citation needed}} tags are addressed now. XOR'easter (talk) 20:20, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

XOR'easter, thanks for your efforts. A couple of things still need to be directly cited: the quotes in the sentence beginning "As he stated in the paper" in the physical cosmology section, the Einstein–Cartan theory and Wave–particle duality sections. Also, do you think MOS:OVERSECTION is a problem at all? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:46, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

The citation for the "As he stated in the paper..." is immediately preceding that passage. I don't see the need to repeat footnotes there.

There are more divisions into short subsections than I would have included, but I'm not sure that's a problem per se. XOR'easter (talk) 17:41, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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1905 papers

Wasn't his PhD thesis the paper that firmly established the validity of the molecular hypothesis? If so, shouldn't it be included with the other four 1905 papers as groundbreaking? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 12:32, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

See Relativity priority dispute. The other four were never "ground-breaking" in the first place.

duly or dually?

In the sentence: Einstein graduated from the Federal polytechnic school in 1900, duly certified as competent to teach mathematics and physics. Dually seems to make more sense, even if duly would be technically correct. 172.126.37.115 (talk) 23:07, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Duly is better and far more common. There's no need to belabor the obvious, that he could teach two subjects. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:34, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Is it necessary to have either word? Just say "in 1900, certified as competent..." If you want emphasis on the dual-ness, you could use "certified as competent to teach both math and physics" 172.4.66.98 (talk) 20:54, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Zurich and its umlaut

Moved my talk page. -- ZH8000 (talk) 18:52, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

I've just had a look at the website of the University of Zurich, and of course, you're quite right about the umlaut. But when I got to the bottom of the page, what did I see? "© 2023 Universität Zürich". No doubt it's something to do with the Uncertainty Principle... Niggle1892 (talk) 12:00, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that's because the legal relevant copyright statement is written in the local language. Besides, some websites do not change their headers and/or logos and bottom lines independent of the chosen language. But both, ETH and University Zurich do in their English text. -- ZH8000 (talk) 18:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Civil rights and Marian Anderson?

Section #US citizenship briefly mentions Einstein's civil rights involvement. Shouldn't there be a mention his hosting Marian Anderson when she was turned away by a hotel in Princeton at which she had reservations? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 22:30, 3 July 2023 (UTC)