Paoli, Oklahoma
Paoli High School
Paoli, Oklahoma
War and Peace
Luke Richardson
12th Grade
War and Peace
“I don’t know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with- stone clubs.” Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein has a very good point in his quote. The world is getting so much more technology, and every time we have a war things get more powerful. The bombs get bigger and more powerful, and the targets get bigger. What happens when the wrong hands get these deadly weapons. It probably does not even cross people’s minds that someone is out there who is smart enough to take over the world. With all the technology, it would only take one person to destroy everything. The way the world is today, people can find anything they want on the internet, even things that should not be on it such as how to make bombs and how to tap into anything they want. When things finally get out of control, the wrong powerful bomb is going to go off, and then nothing will be left, except the people who were lucky enough to somehow survive. I am sure the number would be very little. Then we would have to start the world over. Now it comes back to what Einstein said, we will have to fight another war with all that is left, stone clubs.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Wurttemberg , Germany. He was the son of Herman and Paulina Koch Einstein. When he was five years old, his father showed him a pocket compass. The little boy was very impressed by the weird behavior of the compass needle, it kept pointing the same direction no matter which way it was turned. Later he said he felt that “something deeply hidden had to be behind things.” After he attended the public schools in Munich and another in Aarau, Switzerland, he studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. He graduated in 1900. In 1902 till 1909, he worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. This job allowed Einstein much free time, which he spent in scientific investigations. In 1905 he became a Swiss citizen. He made three of his greatest contributions to scientific knowledge at this time. Also in 1905 he contributed three papers to Annalen der Physik, a German scientific periodical. It was a particularly notable time in the history of physical science. All three papers became the basis of a new branch of physics. In one of the three papers, he suggested that light could be thought of as a stream of tiny particles. This idea forms an important part of the quantum theory.
Other scientists before Einstein had discovered that a bright beam of light striking metal caused the metal to release electrons, which could form an electric current. They called this phenomenon the photoelectric effect. The scientists could not explain the phenomenon as long as they assumed that light only traveled in waves. To explain the photoelectric effect Einstein used his theory of quanta. He showed that when a quanta of light energy strike atoms in a metal, the quanta forces the atoms to release electrons. His paper established the theoretical basis for the photoelectric cells, also known as the “electric eye.” This device made sound motion pictures, television, and many of the other inventions possible. For this paper he received the 1921 Noble Prize in Physics and Quanta. In 1944, a manuscript copy of his famous electrodynamics paper brought a pledge invest of six in a half million dollars in war bonds at an auction in Kansas City. The paper was later sent to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In the study that was published in 1905, he showed the equivalence of mass and energy, he expressed it in the famous equation E=MC2.
Although Einstein lived a quiet personal life, he maintained a vital interest in human affairs. He was married twice, his first wife was Milera Maric, she was a physicist and they had two sons and one daughter. They met in Berlin. After they separated and during World War I, he married his first cousin, Elsa. He gained two stepdaughters from this marriage. She faithfully shared his life until her death at Princeton in 1936. He was not associated with any orthodox religions. His nature was deeply religious. The universe to him was one of absolute law and order. He once said, “God maybe sophisticated, but he is not malicious.” Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He is a man of great genius, and made many changes in the world today. Albert Einstein died of heart failure on April 18, 1955.