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Today in Labor History July 15, 1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four other Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg, of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, was 1 of the signers. A new Mainau Declaration was signed in 2015. This one calls for urgent action on the Climate Crisis.

Part of the original Mainau Declaration reads as follows: “We do not deny that perhaps peace is being preserved precisely by the fear of these weapons. Nevertheless, we think it is a delusion if governments believe that they can avoid war for a long time through the fear of these weapons. Fear and tension have often engendered wars. Similarly, it seems to us a delusion to believe that small conflicts could in the future always be decided by traditional weapons. In extreme danger no nation will deny itself the use of any weapon that scientific technology can produce. All nations must come to the decision to renounce force as a final resort. If they are not prepared to do this, they will cease to exist.”

While both threats remain, the nuclear threat will destroy the planet, and life on it, much more suddenly. And the U.S. and Western European powers, including Israel, seem much more prepared to use them than any time in the past. Indeed, in part because of this increasing willingness to use nuclear weapons, willingness to escalate military conflicts that risk nuclear miscalculation, and the rapid proliferation of a new nuclear arms race between the U.S., Russia, and China, in 2023 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (founded by Einstein and Oppenheimer in 1945) pushed the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever come to Armageddon (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis it was at 2 min. before midnight). And then, in 2024, advanced it further, still, to 89 seconds before midnight. The first paragraph of their current status warning reads:

“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.”
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nukes #nuclearweapons #bomb #nobel#peace #coldwar #russia #china #imperialism #cubanmissilecrisis #ukraine #armsrace #einstein #Oppenheimer #Heisenberg #ClimateCrisis #armageddon

New "theory of everything" could finally make 'quantum gravity' a reality — and prove #Einstein wrong
The proposed theory grapples with the fact that #quantummechanics (basically modern #physics) and #generalrelativity (#Einstein's theory of gravity) both describe the universe perfectly, but are mathematically incompatible with each other.
livescience.com/physics-mathem

Live Science · New theory could finally make 'quantum gravity' a reality — and prove Einstein wrongBy Andrey Feldman
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* That quote, taken from William Hermanns's "Einstein and the Poet," may itself be a paraphrase. But it is absolutely true to what Einstein believed. Kindness and compassion are essential human values.

williamhermanns.com/Einstein_a #science #physics #einstein

williamhermanns.comEinstein and the Poet - In Search of the Cosmic Man by William HermannsEinstein and the Poet - In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns

Achtung, #Plüschie in #Berlin #vermisst! Gesucht wird „Mini“, ein 12cm kleiner #Teddy mit gelbem Strampler. #Mini begleitet ihren Menschen seit 30 Jahren und war das letzte Geschenk seiner Mutter, die kurz darauf starb. Mini wurde am 3. Juni aus dem Café #Einstein Unter den Linden mit einer schwarzen Louis-Vuitton-Tasche gestohlen, in der sie saß. Der Besitzer ist verzweifelt und bietet 1000 Euro #Finderlohn, wenn Mini zurückkommt. Bitte Boost, vllt. können wir helfen.
rp-online.de/panorama/deutschl

RP ONLINE · Teddy verzweifelt gesucht: 1.000 Euro für „Mini“ ausgesetztBy Lisa Pauli

A new map of the universe may turn gravity on its head

Scientists have released the largest map of the universe ever compiled. Millions of galaxies have been surveyed, stretching back 11 billion years, most of the age of the cosmos. According to many scientists, this data, combined with other observations, presages a major reassessment of what we know about the universe: possibly, for the first time, revealing a crack in Einstein’s theory of gravity.

archive.ph/FfHXA #Einstein #universe

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=> "[...] besoin de causalité et de sens."

cf #Einstein : "était un homme chez qui la combinaison de lucidité intellectuelle et de myopie émotionnelle provoquait bien des déboires dans les vies de ceux qui l'entouraient." - Highfield et Carter

-> Einstein disait de sa femme : " [...] j'ai engendré des enfants avec une personne moralement et physiquement inférieure..."

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@tagesschau ich könnte hier jetzt #Einstein zum Thema Unendlichkeit zweier Dinge zitieren, aber was sich die (SPD?) Abgeordneten, die in dieser Wahl gegen Merz gestimmt haben, geleistet haben, ist mit Dummheit alleine nicht mehr zu erklären.
Hier haben sich wieder mal Menschen selbst wichtiger genommen als die Sache. Statt sich ihr Gewissen für die zukünftigen Abstimmungen in der Sache aufzuheben, wird allen AfD Protestwählern Zustimmung simuliert. Was für Idioten. #Putinlachtsichtot

"𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎. 𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍."

─ 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘌𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯