{"id":12955,"date":"2024-03-22T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12955"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T16:24:03","slug":"emc-squared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12955","title":{"rendered":"E=mc\u00b2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s another nice day, which is good as Val is off to see her surgeon in Bern again. The celebrated physicist Albert Einstein worked in Bern for a while – he was an assistant at the Swiss patent office. Although he was German by birth, Einstein became a Swiss citizen early in his life, and despite subsequently being granted a U.S. passport, he retained his Swiss nationality until his death in 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Swiss love to maximise a celebrity connection with the country (Sherlock Holmes and the town of Meiringen is perhaps the best example of this), so Bern is home to no less than 4 benches, where you can sit with Einstein’s likeness. Bern isn\u2019t a very big city, so Val managed to visit them all before it was time for her appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Einstein, by all accounts, was a bit of a lad. He only married twice, but had a string of high profile assignations with prominent women of the time, including an alleged Russian spy. Maybe that\u2019s why the Swiss are so keen on him – it certainly makes more interesting reading than the General Theory of Relativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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