This unique color footage shows Einstein in his twilight years: it's May 1943, he was tortured by the spread of fascism across Europe and he had recently urged President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb: a decision he later said was his greatest mistake buff.ly/2OucO2R
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Thx! Looks like Einstein's Home in Princeton. Read "Bloodlands" by Snyder. Nuclear bombs were openly discussed in the late 1930s by the populace! Read that, and Isaacson's "Einstein." But...
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I thought he said his "greatest mistake" was introducing a "cosmological constant" into his equations of relativity (to hold the universe still, neither expanding nor contracting).
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Overrated scientist. Had his first wife Mileva Maric ( great serbian mathematician ) contributed to his theory? Dark spot for the idol 😜.
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