tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post1117365719994543878..comments2024-03-18T17:05:21.126+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Living with the deadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-9697815391610650242010-02-16T19:02:03.474+00:002010-02-16T19:02:03.474+00:00*sigh* I am such a science ignoramus and know a lo...*sigh* I am such a science ignoramus and know a lot less than I should about Einstein and Darwin and all those. Don't know why I've never investigated, as am fascinated by other people's lives (nosy, you might want to call it), and I'd love to find out the men behind the physics or equations or giant tortoises etc. I can imagine that the 'dying fall' at the end must be a bit of a trauma to write--so sensible to get it over with and save the nice bits. Much like sugarlumps after vile banana antibiotics when a child.Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-23390128323739277782010-02-16T14:36:06.068+00:002010-02-16T14:36:06.068+00:00Yes, Nick, it's interesting to ponder the '...Yes, Nick, it's interesting to ponder the 'what if there wasn't Einstein...' I do it especially with Newton, as he was expected to die the day he was born, and the priest prepared him for it. How different would the world be? How much longer would it have taken?Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-71194082690133111082010-02-16T13:51:43.006+00:002010-02-16T13:51:43.006+00:00I must read that. Einstein fascinates me. I read t...I must read that. Einstein fascinates me. I read the view of one physicist that the Theory of Special Relativity was something that another scientist might have come up with, given another fifty years... it had a logic to it. But that the Theory of General Relativity was so 'out there' that there was no guessing who else, if anyone, would ever have conceived of it.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-16577203416487348332010-02-15T19:20:59.462+00:002010-02-15T19:20:59.462+00:00Do you know, I always find this when reading biogr...Do you know, I always find this when reading biographies. They die. Always the minor chord. Yet autobiographies are often unsatisfying for the same reason - they are incomplete (unless the author has managed to make them be about something else really, like Goodbye to All That or Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man'.)<br />I had never thought of the impact on the biographer, though - no wonder you feel it worse!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-57046295238190410832010-02-15T18:48:39.059+00:002010-02-15T18:48:39.059+00:00Great post, Ms Stroppy! Over the last while, I'...Great post, Ms Stroppy! Over the last while, I've been reading around several great men (usually they are men, and usually involved in the arts or theatre) and I am always fascinated by the cost of their drive and/or genius to themselves and to all the others around them. Glad your Einstein affair was a happy one!Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.com