XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.math   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/4/25 2:37 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   > On 04/04/2025 12:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
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   Hehe :) That book is not that unfamiliar to me. What a coincidence.   
      
      
   And now that I think about it, I can kind of make informed guesses as   
   what caused him to write it.   
      
   Born deserved a Nobel earlier but they hadn't given him one by 1935   
   while one of his students (Heisenberg) had got it. Who knows, Born may   
   have even been the one who gave the right idea to Heisenberg, letting   
   him do the job.   
      
   He had done, way earlier, the same thing with Einstein's GR too. Born is   
   the one who was supposed to develop GR and he had started it too, but   
   soon found out Einstein is working on it also, so in a favor to Einstein   
   he stopped his own work on GR.   
      
   He later said he could finish it much earlier than Einstein did, if he   
   had not stopped the work.   
      
   I think the same thing may've happened with Heisenberg.   
      
   Anyway, without a doubt, Born was a top physicist of his time, at the   
   least at the level of Einstein and Heisenberg. This is my point. Yet, he   
   hadn't gotten a Nobel.   
      
   So he decided to make money in some other way, I guess. But how?   
      
   Jews had already successfully shoved communism up cro-magnons' asses to   
   fuck those bastards up for treating them bad for centuries, and this had   
   destroyed the appeal that cro-magnons' "religion" had for them. And the   
   1800's cro-magnons who had sold crap to people in the name of new   
   religions were also fast dying off in the 1930s. No market value. So a   
   kind of niche must've formed in those years to use cro-magnons   
   imagination and desire for strange baloney and make money by that. Some   
   chose writing science fiction stories and were successful.   
      
   But what would Jewish scientists do to make money off of the   
   cro-magnons? The lousy ones resorted to write psychology books packed   
   with bogus theories about sexuality and fucking, just so to sell well,   
   and made good money too. But top scientists would not do that sort of   
   things. That kind of fraudulent work was beneath their dignity.   
      
   So what would a man like Born do now that he was being denied the Nobel   
   Prize money? I think he chose to write this book, The Restless Universe.   
   I get a hint at least by the title of it. It is for selling something to   
   the maximum number of ordinary people hungry for stuff that are to some   
   degree strange to them and are true as well :)   
      
   I happened to read this book way back in early 1970s cause someone had   
   translated it to Persian and one copy of that was for reasons unknown to   
   me in our house, I think purchased by one of my elder brothers falling   
   for its title. The book was being spotted by me here and there in the   
   house for at least a decade, along all sorts of other books and   
   magazines that I had nothing to do with them.   
      
   In the 1960s, we high schoolers would see much more of George Gamow's   
   popular physics books which almost all of them had been translated to   
   Persian in late 1950s. But somehow, somebody in the same period of years   
   had chosen this book also to translate. I don't know why. I cannot   
   imagine Born was a known figure in Tehran as a top physicist. I   
   personally heard of his work only in early 1970s when studying physics   
   at Tehran University. And only then, it had clicked in me that this same   
   man was also the author of this "  جهان ناآرام  " book that here and   
   there I'd seen in the house for years.   
      
   So after starting physics in university, and soon after my physics   
   background got strengthened a bit, I naturally began reading it at last.   
   I don't remember much, but the impression that the book had made on me   
   was that it was like a long story but in physics concepts, spoken to the   
   reader in a friendly manner, which was a great relief compared to how   
   physics was covered in the university - our physics texts in the   
   university were mostly translations of French physics books which were   
   all quite rigorous and formal and presented in somewhat sadistic ways   
   for students who were being exposed to them for the first time. The   
   French usually first treat everything rigorously, and only then may do   
   the explanations. It is not so in the United States, and thanks god for   
   that!   
      
   That's the only expression of the Born's book that I still remember.   
   Gamow books were a bit too informal and for a wider audience. We had   
   begun reading them in high school.   
      
   Anyway, when you referred to it, it took me a quite a few seconds to   
   realize and remember all that about it and make sure the book was the   
   same thing we had back then in the house :-) Still don't know who bought   
   it. Both my brothers are still alive, I can ask them that; they may   
   remember.   
      
   Hehe :) I read that before even you were in existence :)   
      
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