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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]
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)Reply
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)Reply
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)Reply
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)Reply
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Today I made an improvement to this article, but it was deleted without my consent. When reading the section that mentions the letter Einstein wrote to the New York Times about the visit of Menachem Begin to the United States, I realized that wikipedia actually has an image of the letter in Wikimeida Commons. This image is displayed in-line with the articles on other signatories, but it was unfortunately absent from Einstein's page. Obviously providing the source-content as a visual aid is a great addition to the quality of this article, so I added it. Then User:Artem.G maliciously removed it without my consent.
It appears that this article is locked from editing by User:Cirt -- a user who has been permanently banned from Wikipedia for abuse. Because the user who locked this page is a known bad actor, can we please unlock this page so I can restore my edit?
I see above text was written at 21:03, 23 December 2023 by user:Maltfield, and was neither signed (by four ~), nor signed by bot (second probably because edit contained more than one section?) as I think Maltfield expected.
User:Artem.G reverted edits cited above commenting that the contents is undue (excessive, unsuitable), proposing summarising it for this article, and proposing discussion on talk page before reverting his reverts. Maltfield tried to discuss here, but because his post was not signed Artem.G (and other editors who look after this site) missed it. I suppose in discussion he would claim the letters to New Yourk Times editors would be at least borderline Non neutral point of view (see above), and if Menachem Begin is still alive as I believe he is, also Biography of living persons apply, so additional sources confirming info in that letter is true would be needed before reverting. And if it can be confirmed as I suppose is required, the contents of that edit would be better placed at Begin article, or an article about history of Israel (written in a NPOW way), possibly here only resumed (because Einstein was one of several who signed it, not the sole author), as Artem proposed in his edit comment. As far as I see, there definitively was no malicious intent from Artem.G.
About consent to change contents of a contributor: Maltfield, following editors don't need consent of previous editors to further modify contents previous editors contributed (also need no consent for removing it if need be, please see copyright Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that is applicable, and link to it is shown whenever you publish here).
Furthermore, as far as I could find, when User:Cirt protected this site in 2009 he was not banned yet, because he did not yet commit the abuse that caused his ban; then he was still a bona fide admin, acting on approved request, see:
08:34, 10 June 2009 Cirt talk contribs changed protection settings for Albert Einstein [edit=autoconfirmed] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite) (vandalism, prot req fm WP:RFPP) (hist) (thank)
See also when he resigned his admin rights, and when and why he was banned: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cirt/Archive; conclusion: this page has been semiprotected permanently years ago because of continuing high vandalism count on it, like several others, to relieve a bit the burden on patrollers, not explicitly (and malevolently) to prevent you to revert reversion of your edits.
What my answer here can help to: my mentioning links to all involved above shall cause Wikipedia software to notify them about this problem when they are next logged in, and because I addressed misconceptions I found above I think they can look into it together and resolve it.--Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 03:25, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
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The material is out of chronological order, and that confuses on several places.
If there is no objection, I'd move the paragraph on Einstein family, and business, moving to Italy in 1894, currently almost at the top of section, after the paragrapghs addressing Einstein's school years and progress in Munich, and before the paragraph about his exams for Swiss federal polytechnics school.
Between there, the story how and why he left Luitpold Gimnasium before finishing it (when abitur was required for access to most university studies) should be at least mentioned (and maybe dr. Josef Degenhart, too). That shall also answer why a school in Swiss was chosen and neither one in Munich (as article imples family planed) or in Italy (where family then resided).
Current sequence of paragraphs is pretty much a mess even when individual facts are true, and I don't see how to make it better without this repositioning. Because this article is high profile I propose this change before making it. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 11:14, 16 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
[[OldCantonalSchoolAarau]][1] might refer to Einstein studying in grammar school in Aarau for a year, mostly to improve his capability in French language (where he failed at first exam for federal polytechnics school); but before addressing reevaluation of citation proposed (I already see it is a secondary, not primary school as would be for Munich paragraph, and adding others relevant to what I wrote above), repositioning of paragraphs in better order I propose above is needed.
Anyway I can already see this: user:JackTheSecond (who added citation) was right to add citation, but wrong on what it meant and where it belongs; user:Zeev59 was right to return the previous Munich primary school, but failed to interpret the citation correctly and so probably wrong to remove the citation (which I'll use if it confirms what I expect, when we come to that ;-)
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And Hieronofsyracuse was right putting that school into the infobox, even when Einstein did it only for a about a year, it was significant for several reasons, including that Einstein graduated there (which he didn't at Luitpold Gimnasium in Munich, just context I intend to give is still missing. I'll revert the Artem.G's removal of it (hi, in most situations your action would be OK) after I give context
Your not going to make me buy the book just to post. You can view the back of the book by clicking the picture on the amazon website.
"In 1875 four years before albert Einstein was born, Samuel Tolver Preston published an amazing book entitled "Physics of the Ether". In it he set down the famously formula E=mc^2 and thoroughly explained its implications"
If that does not satisfy you just look at the article already in wiki:
"In his book Physics of the Ether (1875) he claimed that if matter is subdivided into ether particles, they would travel at the speed of light and represent an enormous amount of energy. " K00la1dx (talk) 15:36, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Back in early 2021 when we were having a tussle about Einstein's Jewishness, I added "Einstein was not a nationalist",[1] taking the assessment from the Princeton book Einstein Before Israel: Zionist Icon Or Iconoclast? by Ze'ev Rosenkranz. The assessment has been removed twice by Steven Homan who says the issue is "more nuanced than this".[2] Steven Homan added several Einstein quotes as a way to contradict the conclusion by Rosenkranz:
"I consider raising Jewish self-esteem essential, also in the interest of a natural coexistence with non-Jews. This was my major motive for joining the Zionist movement."
"Zionism has also a very good influence on the Jewish people… Jews who have a vivid feeling of Jewish national solidarity are much better equipped to overcome with dignity all the dangers and hardships which we have to face... I dislike nationalism very much — even Jewish nationalism. But our own national solidarity is forced upon us by a hostile world, and not the aggressive feelings which we connect with the word 'Nationalism.'"
"I am in favor of Palestine being developed as a Jewish Homeland, but not as a separate state."