I just had an idea for a future empire

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
When was his first book?

Oh, I Was wrong. '85 for his first purely popular book. He did have lots of 'popular' science stuff from as early as '70 (his lectures).

JM

[TCO]

Feynman? I think the Cal Tech lectures were published earlier. Although perhaps that is diginfied as textbook vice popular book.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by TCO
I think Einstein wrote his popular book in 1917. And Hawking also wrote popular books while still doing serious work. No?

Brief history was late 80s. Well past significant work. Don't know Einstein's popular book.

[Jon Miller]

Some of this is that we are thinking of theorists, and msot of them are no longer significant after their 40s.

JM

[TCO]

1917, check Wikipedia. I have a copy as well. It is very famous.

[KrazyHorse]

What is title?

[TCO]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_publications_by_Albert_Einstein

[KrazyHorse]

Einstein gets a pass then. He has ~10 years of useful work left after publication of book.

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Initial fame purely deserved. But since then...

I worked with one of her recently former graduate students. Was not impressed.

Dana felt the pressure that Lisa was more famous.

[KrazyHorse]

Luckily both of my siblings are ****ups, so no need to compete with them.

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Luckily both of my siblings are ****ups, so no need to compete with them.

I'm the oldest and only male. Firstborn of firstorn of firstborn. IVth.

Need to hurry up an procreate. Feel like I'm at the end.

[KrazyHorse]

I am oldest male of oldest male. Not sure about generation back of that.

Have a younger brother and a younger sister.

[TCO]

sister...

[Krill]

Nothing special with being the first born. I'm the first born on both sides going back 2 generations, 3 on my mothers side, don't know about my fathers, or any further back than that.

Oh, and all of my generation are complete ****ups next to me.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Some kid who's a fizzicks undergrad but tries to project that he understands all sorts of crap that's only really understood by a couple of hundred people in the world (a group which doesn't include me).

I never tried to project that, I said is that I understood something better than a lay person. Also when I found out that you where a theoretical physicist I completley backed down in fact the whole incident became someones sig if I remember right.



Also If I remember right I my comment was something to the effect of me bashing you for name dropping it (again this was when I thought you where a happy camper who read the universe in a nutshell and now thought he actually knew sh1t about fizziks)