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October 27, 2016 Leave a Comment

Einstein Explains Relativity

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, Princeton University, 1935
Public Domain image from Wikipedia.

From our Humor Department:

When Einstein passed through U.S. Immigration in 1933 the bureaucrat asked him what he did for a living.

“I’m a physical scientist,” he said.

“Major accomplishments?” asked the bureaucrat while looking down at his form.

“Well, I did develop the Theory of Relativity.”

“Explain.”

“Spend an hour doing something fun like playing chess and it may seem like a minute but spend a minute sitting on a block of ice and that activity may seem like an hour.”

The bureaucrat looked up from his form. “And you expect to make a living doing this?”

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