{"id":176192,"date":"2023-11-17T10:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/not-everyone-agreed-with-albert-einstein-including-children-schrodinger-and-heisenberg"},"modified":"2023-11-17T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:22:42","slug":"not-everyone-agreed-with-albert-einstein-including-children-schrodinger-and-heisenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/not-everyone-agreed-with-albert-einstein-including-children-schrodinger-and-heisenberg","title":{"rendered":"Not Everyone Agreed with Albert Einstein\u2014Including Children, Schr\u00f6dinger, and Heisenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/not-everyone-agreed-with-albert-einstein-including-children-schrodinger-and-heisenberg2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, <i>Einstein<\/i> received a lot of letters from children. \u201cI am a little girl of six,\u201d one announced in large letters drawn haphazardly across the full width of the writing paper. \u201cI saw your picture in the paper. I think you ought to have a haircut, so you can look better.\u201d Having given her advice, the girl, with model formality, signed it, \u201cCordially yours, Ann.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a problem I would like solved,\u201d wrote Anna Louise of Falls Church, Virginia. \u201cI would like to know how color gets into a bird\u2019s feather.\u201d Dear Mr. <i>Einstein<\/i> was asked the age of Earth and whether life could exist without the sun (to which he replied that it very much could not). One child asked him whether all geniuses were bound to go insane. Frank, from Bristol, Pennsylvania, asked what was beyond the sky\u2014\u201cMy mother said you could tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth, from Asheboro, North Carolina, was more philosophical: \u201cWe would like to know, if nobody is around and a tree falls, would there be a sound, and why.\u201d Similarly, Peter, from Chelsea, Massachusetts, drove straight to the heart of human inquiry: \u201cI would appreciate it very much if you could tell me what Time is, what the soul is, and what the heavens are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Einstein received a lot of letters from children. \u201cI am a little girl of six,\u201d one announced in large letters drawn haphazardly across the full width of the writing paper. \u201cI saw your picture in the paper. I think you ought to have a haircut, so you can look better.\u201d Having given [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}