Monday, August 5, 2013

Scientists live in their own beautiful world

                               Scientists live in their own beautiful world


It was in the year 1933 that Albert Einstein fled his country and came to America. The first person he wanted to see was his old friend professor Beno Gutenberg, the German-American seismologist, then at the California Institute of Technology. They walked across the campus in Pasadena, with their hands folded behind their backs, discussing the phenomena of the earth.
Meanwhile, a gust of wind bent down the trees, the earth shook, and buildings trembled. They paid no heed to this, but continued their scientific talk and then entered the college and glanced at the seismograph. Only then did they realize there had been an earthquake, the famous 1933 Long Beach quake.

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