But ... Newton was curious about the compass, so he studied it and got the theory of relativity. . .
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Einstein was born the day before he went to school.
Sick, the originally quiet child is more like a docile kitten, quietly squatting at home, motionless. Father brought one.
A little compass to amuse my son. Einstein held the compass in his little hand, and I saw the pointer in the middle of the compass gently shaking and pointing.
North. He turned the plate around, but the pointer didn't listen to him and still pointed north. Einstein put the compass on his chest again.
Before, I twisted my body, then I twisted it fiercely, but the needle came back, still pointing north. No matter how he turns his body, then
A thin red pointer stubbornly points to the north. Little Einstein forgot his illness, leaving only a surprised face.
There is also confusion: what makes it always point north? There is nothing around this needle. What is pushing it a little bit?
How about going to the north?
Einstein, 67, was still deeply moved by his childhood "compass experience".
He said in the readme:
"When I was a child of four or five years old, I experienced the surprise when my father showed me the compass.
This compass acts in such a definite way, which is not in line with those things that can find a place in the unconscious conceptual world.
I still remember the essence of things (the role related to direct' contact'), at least believe I remember this experience.
Leave a deep and lasting impression on me. I think there must be something deep behind the incident. Everyone has watched it since childhood.
For things, it will not cause this reaction; Does he care about falling objects, wind and rain, the moon or the moon?
Will fall down and will not be surprised by the difference between living things and non-living things. "
Obviously, people experience something and a force in the "empty" space, forcing objects to move.
Move in a specific direction. Although the accident was small, it happened long before Einstein became a scientist.
However, this strange experience is extremely important for his later scientific thinking and research. Later, the characteristics and space of "field"
The problem is that it attracts physicists so strongly. In the general theory of relativity, Einstein finally solved these problems with genius.
The confusion of childhood germination. At that time, however, they just appeared in front of his eyes as they were.
The small compass in which the magnetic needle runs according to certain rules has aroused the curiosity of the future masters of science.
-Curiosity to explore things. And this sacred curiosity is the seedling of science.