tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post3842580715172472874..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Advent calendar #4: Einstein's haircutSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62149101543307802892011-12-05T01:31:27.676-05:002011-12-05T01:31:27.676-05:00typo: not heavy enoughtypo: not heavy enoughSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22675643191186904702011-12-05T01:27:56.090-05:002011-12-05T01:27:56.090-05:00Hi Giotis,
Well, I'm no Einstein researchers ...Hi Giotis,<br /><br />Well, I'm no Einstein researchers and I'm not striving to become one, so maybe you're right. I didn't say this explains Einstein's haircut, I just wrote that's what Herta had to say about it. Anyway, I'm also no hair specialist, but the way you get your hair in a form like the one you see in the photo you link to is fairly easy. You comb it Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-69983866221970049512011-12-04T18:00:40.537-05:002011-12-04T18:00:40.537-05:00Methinks the "pretentious"ness is in the...Methinks the "pretentious"ness is in the eye of the beholder.Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24504435233188391462011-12-04T15:30:01.209-05:002011-12-04T15:30:01.209-05:00Is it just my imagination or does he look a bit li...Is it just my imagination or does he look a bit like Stalin in this picture? The expression somehow looks similar.<br /><br />(Note:I do not mean anything else by this statement.)uair01https://www.blogger.com/profile/14538242264866015155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34453122147517473722011-12-04T15:12:28.377-05:002011-12-04T15:12:28.377-05:00I think he was genuinely in his own universe.
I re...I think he was genuinely in his own universe.<br />I read that while at Princeton he would be crossing a street and suddenly stop midway, lost in contemplation. The locals, who could recognize him by his white mane, would wait patiently until he ambled on.<br />What I found to be an interesting contrast for an abstracted theorist was his passion for sailing a small boat in very rough weather. He Don Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04814669413022486958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16165425790153181022011-12-04T13:46:28.390-05:002011-12-04T13:46:28.390-05:00The story maybe true but does not explain his hair...The story maybe true but does not explain his haircut like you said in the post.<br /><br />For example <a href="http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einst_la24.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a> isn't natural. It takes effort to comb you hair like that. It's a hair style and a statement. At least this my impression but maybe I'm wrong; I don't know much about Einstein's Giotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03594944884584261018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76688588763417733822011-12-04T12:41:47.277-05:002011-12-04T12:41:47.277-05:00The interview seems very authentic too me and Elsa...The interview seems very authentic too me and Elsa's shortsightedness seems to have been well known and is confirmed by many other people. What psychoanalysis would say were Einstein's deeper reasons to avoid a barber is another questions. But I don't see anything pretentious about his haircut. It looks like it was cut to keep the hair out of his eyes and not so long as to hang onto Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17443155283359043542011-12-04T10:14:56.235-05:002011-12-04T10:14:56.235-05:00I don't believe it. Einstein's iconic hair...I don't believe it. Einstein's iconic haircut was too pretentious to be random. I have the impression that he consciously promoted the image of the unconventional rebel. Like the iconic figure of Che it is too perfect to be accidental.Giotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03594944884584261018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-11784815868524567512011-12-04T05:30:09.378-05:002011-12-04T05:30:09.378-05:00Hi Bee,
Perhaps Elsa was Einstein’s solution to R...Hi Bee,<br /><br />Perhaps Elsa was Einstein’s solution to Russel’s paradox, since she never shaved herself for fear of cutting her throat, while as with Einstein the rest didn’t fully appreciate the risk :-)<br /><br /><br /><i><b>“A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?”</b></i><br /><br />-Bertrand Russel<br /><br />Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.com