{"id":19688,"date":"2025-12-31T17:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:17:27","slug":"with-black-holes-or-not-einstein-didnt-like-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=19688","title":{"rendered":"With black holes or not, Einstein didn&#8217;t like socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I read a remainding quote on Facebook, Einstein once said &#8220;<strong>thinking and thinking for months, for years, 99 times wrong conclusions, the 100-th time I am right<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; you have to admit, not only smart, he was such a wise philosopher too&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;though he didn&#8217;t like socks that much, he mentioned that he stopped wearing socks because his big toe would always make a hole in them, imagine now a &#8220;black hole&#8221; in your sock, what a catastrophic phenomena &#8211; and he had some strange &#8220;conditions&#8221; for his wife, almost the same as, lets say&#8230; Aristotle thought slavery is something to be proud of, or he claimed that women have fewer teeth than men, but he never verified this by examining his wives&#8217; mouth, his statement has been criticized (and should be heavily criticized) for its lack of empirical evidence, imagine&#8230; what a shame, you sleep with your wife yet you don&#8217;t know how many teeth she has, even if your love is 100% in darkness you should &#8220;feel&#8221; something, right, you could just ask your lovely wife dear Aristotle &#8211; the same, I have read something like &#8220;ultimatum&#8221; written by Einstein for his wife, I simply couldn&#8217;t understand why she stayed with him, why she accepted to be his wife any further, or perhaps she kept the silence just for God&#8217;s sake, not to make a scandal of it, I respect that : )<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;anyways, about his wisdom, to be honest, almost the same here, &#8220;<strong>thinking and thinking for months, for years, 99 times wrong conclusions, the 100-th time again not 100% sure if I am right<\/strong> &#8211; I say so cause still no Nobel here, otherwise for years and years someone would have recognised my wisdom, unfortunately not, that&#8217;s the truth : ) &#8211; at least he was right about the photoelectric effect, he was wrong about his own wife&#8230; but right about the photoelectric effect, he proposed that a beam of light is not a wave propagating through space, but discrete energy packets (which later was popularised as photons), thus he got his Nobel for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the rest were just imaginations, truly wild imaginations, he praised imagination, his imaginations still &#8220;confuse&#8221; science today, he himself was never sure, he even couldn&#8217;t accept &#8220;quantum scientia&#8221; that much &#8211; for example, the famous Bohr-Einstein debates are known as series of public disputes about quantum mechanics, of course their disputes have some importance to the philosophy of science, at least it&#8217;s &#8220;history&#8221;, scientific philosophy is important too, but thus were disputes&#8230; and he could never be sure if our Moon &#8220;could be and not be there&#8221; where it is, just the same as he refused to accept that socks are important too, with &#8220;black holes&#8221; or not, he simply didn&#8217;t like socks etc etc : )<br \/>\n<em>(sg &#8211; ars poetica, dec 25)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1033\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/letrat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arspo_einstein_getty_ph_124-1536x992.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I read a remainding quote on Facebook, Einstein once said &#8220;thinking and thinking for months, for years, 99 times wrong conclusions, the 100-th time I am right&#8221; 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