Le 1 nov. 05, à 14:39, Andy Amago a écrit :
[Original Message] From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 11/1/2005 12:47:58 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Einstein -Scene 2
SCENE II
Swiss Patent Office. Night.
EINSTEIN: And so I told him, either the cat is dead [pulling deeply on joint] ...
MAN: Yeah?
EINSTEIN: [exhaling a huge cloud of smoke] Oh that was too-oo much. [Einstein coughs and doubles up coughing]
MAN: Take it easy, dude. Bogart is still an infant.
EINSTEIN: Whew yeah.
[silence as the smoke cloud settles around them]
MAN: You bring your violin?
EINSTEIN: Left it.
[Knock at the door. Man's voice.]
SECOND MAN: Is this Dr. Frankenstein's office?
MAN: Four doors down on the left.
SECOND MAN: Thank you.
MAN: So, how's things with Mileva?
EINSTEIN: She's good. I have a feeling, you know, that she might be the one.
MAN: What one?
EINSTEIN: THE one. The mate. Mrs. Genius.
MAN: That's cool.
EINSTEIN: She's the best thing that ever came out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Just the other day we were watching the bong water...
MAN: The what?
EINSTEIN: The bong water. You know that water pipe that Dr. Stark Von Roten-Augen built?
MAN: Oh yeah, that Einzelne-Maßeinheit-Rauchenden-Schlauch-des-Hauchs thing?
EINSTEIN: The very same.
MAN: Let me get this straight. You were watching bong water?
EINSTEIN: It's got these little bits of resin and ash in it that swirl around and around.
MAN: You guys must have been ripped.
EINSTEIN: We were. Anyway we're watching the bong water, and Mileva says to me, she says "Albert, this is Brownian movement." And I say, "like yeah? And she says, "Well if the motion of the molecules of the bong water makes them strike the suspended molecules of the resin in a random way, there must be a mathematical solution to the description of their motion that can be included into normal kinetic theory."
This caricaturization captures the type of conversation Outsider Einstein
would have had with his wife and the people in his circle. He had no room
in his life for anything other than physics.
Michael Chase (goya@xxxxxxxxxxx) CNRS UPR 76 7, rue Guy Moquet Villejuif 94801 France
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