Astronomer Brian Cox Tells A Story From Einstein's Boyhood That - Fundamentally - Changed Albert's Life

 

Alan Archibald

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When Einstein was six or seven, his Dad gave him a compass, enabling him -- for the first time -- to get a glimpse of something invisible.

I'm increasingly struck by a line in the "Nicene Creed" that says "I believe in all that is seen, and unseen."

Wow.

FYI: The Vatican maintains an astronomical observatory (operated by Jesuit astronomers) in the mountains of New Mexico, and another in Castel Gandolfo.

Astonomer Brian Cox's account of Einstein's making a crucial discovery with a compass his father gave him when he was six or seven. (Cox's last line is quite brilliant.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCBMjxQQxGw

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"Glimpses of something deeply hidden..."

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"Meet the Pope's Astronomer" https://www.deseret.com/.../vatican-observatory-guy.../

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Science and faith intersect at the Vatican's Observatory in Italy. Meet the MIT-educated American who runs it

Science and faith intersect at the Vatican's Observatory in Italy. Meet the MIT-educated American who runs it

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Who knew about the Jesuit astronomers operating an astronomical observatory in Arizona. PBS reports: "We are scientists, but we are also scientists as we are representing the Catholic Church’s regard for science, and that, as far as the Church is concerned, is its purpose — is to do good science and to show that the Church values good science." https://www.pbs.org/.../june-3-2005-jesuit-arizona.../12290/

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June 3, 2005 ~ Jesuit Arizona Observatory | June 3, 2005 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

June 3, 2005 ~ Jesuit Arizona Observatory | June 3, 2005 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS