My Favorite Historical Characters

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Today, I bring you more of the same except that these people are very real. Legends in their various fields. I would present what makes them my favorite and against what makes them special. My favorites must have interesting stories. As usual, I'll talk a lot about the first person. Here we go guys...

Albert Einstein

I'm sure you've all heard of this guy. As far as I can tell, he was Jewish. But I know he had something to do with Germany (maybe he could only speak out though), and USA... I'm not going to say too much about his works. I'm going to say more of what makes him interesting to me. First and foremost, in my mind, the guy is the most brilliant scientist ever!!! His works speak of such genius. Usually, physics is about physical quantities. So if you weigh 8kg, and your brother weighs 9kg, then both of you weigh 17 if you both stand on one scale. But this guy came up with a series of equations (differential equations) that don't follow that principle at all. I'm not expert, but I think it's something about the nature of the equations such that when I've value is plugged into one of his differentials, the next equation is affected, so that they don't add up in the end... There are sixteen of these equations... Lol... They sum up to the popular E=mc².

I'm not going to dwell too much on these things because it gets crazy. For example, my man finds a way to tell you gravity isn't real. He finds a way to mathematically convince you that light doesn't travel in a straight line... He invents a word for the path light travels in and says it's a "geodesic"... Lots of crazy stuff implied by the math this genius comes up with... Maybe I'll write more about him sometime...

Now, to the good stuff...

They say to every genius, there's a touch of insanity. This man was borderline crazy. I'm surprised he was never diagnosed!!! I'm going to tell you the stories I heard about him in the way I often tell them. I tell them in the just interesting way possible...

First story

Einstein's wife used to ask him to dress properly. If you've ever seen a picture of Einstein, you know you won't love his hair and dress much. But he would always say "I'm going to my office, everyone knows me, my dressing didn't matter, I'm Einstein..." So he would not dress properly. One day, he had a talk somewhere far away, and he was again asked to dress well but this time he replied "where I'm going, no one knows me, so it really doesn't matter".

My take from that is "either they know me, or they don't know me, my dressing well doesn't matter because I'm Einstein"... Just hilarious

Second story (brilliancy is contagious)

His driver had gone to many of his talks on relativity with him. So his driver approached Einstein and told him "I can deliver your talks better than you " Einstein chuckled and said nothing. But the driver got his chance the following week. Einstein took his word for it and asked his driver to go give the talk instead of him. Einstein decided to rest at the back. Truly, the driver did an a job, and gave the speech brilliantly and confidently. So, the end came where he was supposed to answer questions. Now giving a talk you've heard several times isn't much. But you'll see where the brilliancy was soon. He answered must of the first few questions which were easy. So a lady got up and asked a hard one, and the driver without skipping a beat said "this question is so simple, even my driver can answer it!". So he called Einstein, and Einstein answered it like a proper academic.

The effect was that no hands can't up to ask any questions again. Imagine a driver understanding more than a bunch of professors!!!! No one simply wanted to face that embarrassment again. I think handling the situation in such a battery was the proof that Einstein's driver had truly gotten brilliant too.

P.S: in those days, Einstein was known by name not by face.

Story three...

Einstein was on a train and after the train took off, they were asking for the tickets from the passengers. So, naturally they approached Einstein too. But by a stroke of luck, the person collecting the tickets recognized Einstein after a few seconds of Einstein struggling to find his ticket. So he went "aren't you Einstein??? Don't worry about the ticket I know who you are!!!" So he left. When he got back, he saw Einstein furiously searching now. So he told him "I told you I knew who you were, really, don't bother". Einstein retorted "yes, I know who I am too, but I don't know where I'm going!"

There are lots of stories... It's crazy already, and I didn't tell you about when he forgot the way to his house, and when he said his most brilliant discovery was being able to boil egg and stew together...

The read is lengthy already... I'll probably continue with two other characters tomorrow... Or I'll write something else. Let me know what you want...

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