Why had I not heard of Emmy Noether and her theorems before?
This video is extremely interesting. Though the maths is beyond me I followed the gist. Einstein's theory of general relativity had a flaw. It was not consistent with the conservation of energy. Everyone has heard of Einstein but I suspect not many people know that it was Emmy Noether who fixed this flaw, and in doing so showed that energy is only locally conserved, and that over vast times and distances it is lost.
The woman is a founding pioneer of the entire genre of #ScienceFiction. At the age of 20, while caring for little children and with a mostly absent husband, she wrote one of the most famous novels of all time, #Frankenstein. Meanwhile, your bio focuses on her marriage and how she published her late husband's writings (making it sound like she claimed his work as her own).
Thanks for undermining and ignoring the lady's achievements, guys. ( #Gutenberg is usually so much better with their posts.)
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EDIT YOUR POST to mention HER works and her position in #SciFi history more prominently. (Don't forget that you can edit posts here in Mastodon.)
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who is best known as the author of Frankenstein, a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel and is also often considered an early example of science fiction. Learn more about her life and works in this article.
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A closer view of #AmeliaEarhart's pre-marital letter to George Putnam. [Complete transcription is in the AltText. Any hashtags here also apply to previous tweet in this mini-thread.]
"Dear GPP
There are some things which should be writ before we are married--things we have talked over before–most of them.
You must know again my reluctance to marry, my feeling that I shatter thereby chances in work which means most to me. I feel the move just now as foolish as anything I could do. I know there may be compensations but have no heart to look ahead.
On our life together I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. If we can be honest I think the difficulties which arise may best be avoided should you or I become interested deeply (or inpassing) in anyone else.
Please let us not interfere...
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Today is #AmeliaEarhartDay.
#AmeliaEarhart was born #OTD in 1897 in #Atchinson #Kansas.
In Feb of 1931, Earhart married her longtime beau, George Putnam. They had an unusual marriage for the day: She kept her surname and continued flying airplanes after marriage. (Women then were expected to give up their careers as soon as they got married, and live a demur lifestyle.) Just before the wedding, she gave Putnam a typed note explaining her philosophy of marriage, and what she wanted for their relationship in the future (pictured).
She disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. She was 39 years old.
Some of her better-known quotes include:
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done."
"Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your #courage."
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things."
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