Einstein

Most mortals marvel at this master’s magnificent meticulous mind. This enigmatic eccentric genius was extremely groundbreaking. His impressive inspiring ideas instilled a sense of imagination in us for generations to come. We will look into the life of the wide-eyed wonderer known as Albert Einstein on this week’s episode of FYI! 

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most mortals marvel at this master's magnificent meticulous mind this enigmatic eccentric genius was extremely groundbreaking his impressive inspiring ideas instilled a sense of imagination in us for generations to come we will look into the life of the wide-eyed wonderer known as albert einstein on this week's episode of f y i welcome to for your info english you got it[Music] hello hello hello everybody and welcome to this another exciting edition of fyi the weekly podcast where we delve into a different topic every week and as i tell you guys week after week you aren't the only ones learning i learned so much about albert einstein after preparing this episode and now i'm ready to share it with you and remember if you want additional content meaning bonus audio articles that are related to the topic in question you can get pdfs with the vocabulary weekly classes with me where we review the key vocabulary of each episode and monthly master classes that and you can also become a part 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looks interesting to you we're having a blast los tamos pasando en grande all right so now it's time for the lecture at hand el tema pendiente albert einstein i know in spanish you say einstein or einstein i owe my wife i should have asked her to pronounce it for me before the episode we say albert einstein now i guess we would have to ask his mother and his father how they pronounced it but in the united states it's accepted as albert einstein i started off by saying most mortals marvel whoa three m's right off the bat la mayoria de los muertas they marvel i think we looked at this word in a past episode most mortals marvel at this masters magnificent so master evidently magnificent meticulous mind wow that's a lot of m's i think a few more and we've got enough for a bag of m m's anyway i said this enigmatic eccentric genius enigmatic because well he wasn't really a secretive guy but enigmatic because everybody wanted to know what was going on in his brilliant brain and he was eccentric obviously you just had to take a look at the guy take a look at his hair style and the way he dressed to see that he was a bit eccentric and we're going to look at that a little bit later on in the show some of his fashion faux pas and then i said he was extremely groundbreaking literally groundbreaking means que rompe la tierra prosotra forma innovador he was an innovator constantly innovating his discoveries his ideas him they were ground breaking and get ready for the eyes no no los ojos los but we are going to talk about einstein's eyes a little bit later on i'm talking about the letter i now i said his impressive impresionante inspiring inspiring us getting speed on ideas instilled and that's a sense of imagination in us for generations to come and then you heard like an electrical sound effect because i was just thinking of his brain cells connecting and not being able to take all that knowledge careful with that word too he knows bueno impasado he knew a lot of things he knows a lot he has a lot of knowledge fi housing como cambia el sonido bocale no knowledge and i finished up the intro saying we will look into this is a great one investigar we will look into the life of this wide eyed and if you're wide los ojos abiertos estas mirando todo you're paying attention and everything is thrilling everything's exciting and everything is about discovery and then i called him a wanderer which is weird because we usually say a wanderer a wanderer is somebody who likes to wander the ambulat a wonderer is somebody who likes to wonder i assume he was both but i said wanderer so vamos a defeat estafrasse i wonder if he liked to wander me pregunto si le gustava de ambular well i know one thing his mind liked to wander and not just his mind his eyes as well we'll find out that albert einstein was not just a brain but he was also a bit of a womanizer mujer diego yeah well as i said i learned a lot of things and i'm gonna share them with you so here's the first thing i imagine everybody in the whole world is asking themselves how smart is einstein or was einstein well what was his iq isn't that how we find out how smart somebody is it's how we measure or how we gauge that sure you take an iq test i think you say coefficient we say iq well they say that his iq was around 160 but guess what there's no way of verifying that claim but why not why didn't he just take an iq test well sadly albert einstein never took an iq test so we can guess we can suppose what his iq could have been but nobody really knows so that's one thing that adds to the mystery but i think we can all agree that he had an extremely high iq but normally people who are very intelligent i'm talking like prodigy intelligent well they usually have some other issues and he was no different in fact as a child he was the king of throwing temper tantrums now what is a temper tantrum i think in spanish you say rabieta so he would get really angry and he would throw things whenever he was displeased and in fact there's even a record of him when he was frustrated he picked up a chair and threw it at his teacher so he might have been able to control his brain but his temper was another thing and that's normal too kids need to learn to control their tempers but he had a bad temper as a child i like it in spanish you say he had bad milk and we're going to debunk a myth right now there is a myth going around that einstein was never a good student that he struggled in school but they are saying that this is a myth it's made up okay as we just saw he might have had a problem with authority but he wasn't a bad student during his summers when he was a pre-teen esto es antes de cerum teenager a preteen he would study math and physics for fun because he was bored he said well i'm going to study some math and physics i don't know about you guys but i check twitter for fun and i guess that's why i haven't mastered differential and integral calculus by the age of 15. in fact i haven't mastered it by the age of 43 so he was not a bad student he was light years ahead of the rest he just had some issues and how to adapt and development as many many kids do it's it's nothing abnormal i mean i i think it's actually interesting that the guy was really smart and he liked to follow you know all the lessons but he wasn't into following the rules and i think that's one of the things that made him him most people who are innovators most people who change the world don't follow the rules they rewrite the rules and one example of this was when his country because he was born in germany well when his country got involved with nazism he said no way i will not be a part of this i am going to denounce this publicly and they said that from a young age he was not a big fan of any kind of nationalism he considered himself to be a citizen of the world so it's no wonder that when he was 16 he renounced his german citizenship and he was stateless for a while that's right cinestado like tom hanks in that movie the terminal then eventually in 1901 he got his swiss citizenship and he also got american citizenship but the nazis were looking for him they had a bounty on him because well he left the country and he was publicly denouncing what the nazi party was doing i even read when i was researching this that they took a lot of his books and essays and they burned them in nazi germany so he was persona non grata in his country but in all fairness he was the one who said if you guys are going to do that i am not german anymore i'm not interested no way jose as we say count me out i also wanted to talk a little bit about his love life now as i said before he was a bit of a womanizer which is strange because he was unkempt you know when you looked at him physically he was unkempt i think that's desalinato and usually women like a guy who's well groomed you know who combs his hair and you know puts on deodorant don't do those basic things but i guess they loved him for his brain his sense of humor or the fact that he played the violin i mean this guy was a curious interesting creature and his curiosity was not just in mathematics it was also in women and he had his eye on the only female student in his physics class he said you're my favorite in this class and she said well i'm the only woman he goes see[Laughter] her name was mileva marik excuse my pronunciation marek or marich possibly and she was the only female student in the zurich polytechnic school when einstein was there and like einstein she was passionate about math and science and she was an aspiring physicist as well but when she married einstein and became the mother of his children she gave up those ambitions and we're going to talk a little bit about his exploits in the bonus part of the show as i said this guy was a player a player is un golfo and he also had an illegitimate baby an illegitimate baby or as we say a baby born out of wedlock that means the parents are not married so before he married mileva she gave birth dior luth out of wedlock no and it was a baby girl this was in 1902 she was staying with her family in serbia and the baby's name was and excuse my pronunciation lisal lisertel and it's believed by historians that this baby died in its infancy of scarlet fever or was given up for adoption but they only heard of this baby while it was just an infant and then nobody heard about this baby ever again and they say that in all likelihood in toda probably einstein never saw this baby in person so yeah i guess he had a rocky marriage a rocky love life rocky escon problems and surely he got divorced now he paid his wife mila marich his first wife he paid her with the prize money that he got from the nobel prize this was so she would agree to grant him a divorce so that's an an interesting fun fact about einstein he never got to keep the money from his nobel prize because he wanted to get out of his marriage and he said well here take the money and we'll call it quits to call it quits as the thier hasta quieremos the total was 32 250 now obviously in today's money adjusted for inflation that's a lot more it says here that 10 times the annual salary of the average professor so that was a nice payout he could have gone you know drinking with his friends to ibiza or something like that but no he wanted to settle up and get out of that divorce and we're going to talk more about his exploits with women in the bonus part of today's show and we couldn't talk about albert einstein without talking about the theory of relativity that's right e equals m c squared einstein published this theory of general relativity in 1915 and it stated and i'm going to read it word for word because i'm no scientist as you can imagine and it stated that gravitational fields cause distortions in the fabric of space and time and like many theories when it came out it was quite controversial until may 1919 about four years later when there was a total solar eclipse and it gave the proper conditions to test if a super massive object in this case we're talking about the sun could cause a measurable curve in the starlight passing by it and what this guy wanted to do this guy who was testing it i'll tell you his name i have it here arthur eddington well this guy wanted to prove einstein's theory true once and for all and he did it he went to the coast of west africa and he photographed this eclipse and this eclipse proved that the theory of relativity was a hundred percent true and that news which again came four years later made him an instant celebrity and when i say him yes arthur eddington but even more so albert einstein the guy we came here to talk about today because they realize this guy knows what he's talking about he was right and it not only proved that he was right but now other scientists were willing to do research in this field and further develop his cause in the six years after this eclipse which again happened in 1919 there were more than 600 books and articles that were written on the theory of relativity i'm not talking about now now there are probably six million but just in the six years after it there were 600 different materials written about the theory of relativity sadly albert einstein died in april 1950 he died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm now what they say is that of course these are things that can happen to anyone but if you're a heavy smoker well it could increase the chances of you having an aortic aneurysm and was our friend albert einstein a heavy smoker yes he was a heavy pipe smoker he smoked for decades he praised smoking and said that when he was smoking his pipe he could see things more clearly and his doc his doctors they told him they said dude you got to stop smoking because you're getting sick and this isn't helping you and he sporadically obeyed espodal esporadica occasionally he wanted to have his pipe and philosophize and ultimately it led to you know smoking wasn't the cause of his death but it absolutely led to his death in his will his will is su testamento you can also say your last will and testament but it's more common to say in your will so in his will he requested that his body be cremated okay that's pretty normal many people decide to be cremated instead of buried but in a bizarre turn of events a princeton princeton is a university a very reputable university in new jersey well a princeton pathologist a guy named thomas harvey removed albert einstein's brain during an autopsy and he kept it okay that's right now what was he doing that for well it was in the hope of unlocking the secrets of his genius but come on i know this is for science and all that and blah blah blah but you gotta respect someone's last wishes now eventually einstein's son said that uh he could cut apart the brain and they could study it but initially the guy did it without permission and believe me they said that the the einstein family was very reluctant reactio but they approved it and then this doctor thomas harvey decided to cut einstein's brain into little pieces and he sent them to many different scientists for further research and they've done all kinds of studies on his brain scientists from all over the world who were sent a sample of the brain studied it but not too much has come from it until 1999 and in 1999 a team from a canadian university published a controversial paper claiming that einstein possessed unusual folds plegues on his parental lobe please forgive my pronunciation a part of the brain the parietal or parental lobe and this is a part of the brain that's associated with mathematical and spatial ability so at first i'm thinking you know this guy i thought that he wanted to make some money off of einstein's brain but it seems like he really was interested in trying to figure out what made this man so unique and so different from everybody else in this world it's almost like he saw the world with different eyes and speaking of eyes i told you that we were going to talk about albert einstein's eyes well this doctor this really nice doctor the pathologist thomas harvey didn't only illegally perform an autopsy on einstein's body and steal his brain but he also stole his eyes what that's right he stole einstein's brain and his eyes and he gave the eyes to einstein's eye doctor i guess that makes sense the guy's name was henry abrams and supposedly legend states that einstein's eyes are kept in a safety deposit box in new york city to this day so that's a an interesting i guess that's the thing folks when somebody is that brilliant that amazing we want that person to be eternal we want them to live on forever because we want to feel like we knew them like we were near them like they influenced us and there's no doubt that albert einstein not only influences scientists all over the world but he continues to influence children teachers and so many people all over the place sadly we have reached the end of the first part of today's show the good news is we have a bonus part and in the bonus part of today's show we're going to see how einstein was the inspiration for yoda in star wars we're also going to see how he charged for autographs wait don't be so quick to judge there's a good twist on this one and we'll take a look at that in the bonus part or also talk about his fashion sense or lack thereof some of his hobbies and we'll also take a look at some of his quotes oh and don't forget about his juicy exploits that and so much more in the bonus part of today's f y i[Music][Music][Applause] you