“I know not
with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones.”
Albert
Einstein
Well it’s not
that Joseph Stalin or Winston Churchill that stopped the Second World War. It
was bunch of quantum physic scientist that ended the World War II. Since 1942, more than 100,000
scientists of the Manhattan Project had been working on the bomb’s development.
At the time, it was the largest collective scientific effort ever undertaken.
It involved 37 installations across the US, 13 university laboratories and a
host of prestigious participants such as the Nobel prizewinning physicists
Arthur Holly Compton and Harold Urey. Directed by the Army's chief engineer,
Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project was also the most
secret wartime project in history. At first, scientists worked in isolation in
different parts of the US, unaware of the magnitude of the project in which
they were involved. Later, the project was centralized and moved to an isolated
laboratory headed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
On 16 July 1945, scientists carried out the first trial of the bomb in the New
Mexico desert. President Truman received news of the successful test whilst
negotiating the post-war settlement in Europe at the Potsdam Conference.
Albert Einstein
directly did not involve in Manhattan
Project, But as we shall see, he was instrumental in facilitating its
development.
In 1905, as
part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a
large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This
was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light
squared). The atomic bomb would clearly illustrate this principle.
But bombs
were not what Einstein had in mind when he published this equation. Indeed, he
considered himself to be a pacifist. In 1929, he publicly declared that if a
war broke out he would "unconditionally refuse to do war service, direct
or indirect... regardless of how the cause of the war should be judged."
(Ronald Clark, "Einstein: The Life and Times", pg. 428). His position
would change in 1933, as the result of Adolf Hitler's ascent to power in
Germany. While still promoting peace, Einstein no longer fit his previous self-description
of being an "absolute pacifist".
Einstein's
greatest role in the invention of the atomic bomb was signing a letter to
President Franklin Roosevelt urging that the bomb be built. The splitting of
the uranium atom in Germany in December 1938 plus continued German aggression
led some physicists to fear that Germany might be working on an atomic bomb.
Among those concerned were physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner. But
Szilard and Wigner had no influence with those in power. So in July 1939 they
explained the problem to someone who did: Albert Einstein. According to
Szilard, Einstein said the possibility of a chain reaction "never occurred
to me", altho Einstein was quick to understand the concept after
consulting with Einstein; in August 1939 Szilard wrote a letter to President
Roosevelt with Einstein's signature on it. The letter was delivered to
Roosevelt in October 1939 by Alexander Sachs, a friend of the President.
Germany had invaded Poland the previous month; the time was ripe for action.
That October the Briggs Committee was appointed to study uranium chain
reactions.
I’m not sure
who told this but I got to knew this from a very close friend, But is a nice idea,
“in human body when we have a high blood pressure in the brain nothing works
except the brain. I guess this is very true with Albert Einstein. His brain
worked more than anyone else in the world. The atomic bomb caused to thousands
of innocence civilians in Japan.
There is
another extension of the same idea and that is my most preferred part. “When
there is a high blood pressure in a male pennies man is practical catatonic and that highly pressurized
pennies control everything without any exception. This is also true with Albert
Einstein, he was married to his first cousin, and still there are several custodian
battles with his legitimate and illegitimate children. This is common with great
people who have great mistakes.
All what I’m
talking is rubbish, because my brain too also gone into dis- functionality, due to
various external forces. Only thing I can do is sleeping with the hope of nice
dreams,
But I could
not see dreams. The Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said “I t s that
god can forgive terrorist , but I will be helping them meet the god”
That is not a
Joke by An Idiot; President Putin is a man of his word. Didn’t he kick his wife
and out
of the presidential palace and married that seductive gymnastic gold medalist
in Olympic.
Why I can’t
sleep peacefully with all this, 30 years of We Sri Lankans spent our lives with
a war of our own brothers? Who wants another war? OH god help me to sleep peacefully………………….
