(Will order when I can beat the free-mail thing. Easy-peasey from book list..)

One Does Wonder what AE's 'dreams' might have been like (Think: benzene ring decoder dreamt of a snake biting its tail.)

Sample 'review'

One of the most creative people I know (holder of dozens of patents that have created two new industries) first told me about this book. He said that Einstein's Dreams was better for stimulating new ideas than any other book he had ever read. Naturally, I added the book to my list . . . but didn't get around to it right away. That was a mistake! I found Einstein's Dreams better for stimulating creativity than all other creativity books I have read combined. I wish I had read Einstein's Dreams when it first came out.

Einstein, of course, was famous for this "thought experiments" in which he would imagine what would happen if he were placed in different circumstances. For example, what if he were riding on a photon of light? What would happen if he shined a flashlight ahead of him? How would someone riding on a parallel photon of light perceive his flashlight if he flashed it toward the other person?

How could I have missed this? ... for twenty Years??
He's Got-to have grokked to near-fullness: AE's knack for the as-yet undreamt-of !!
Which makes the Author-- [I no verbs]

(Good Thing to follow up ... something-to-Do with Wittgenstein, Popper and.. a peculiar event of Oct 24, 1946, involving a poker wielded by ... )

Serendipity.. thanks much!
(One thing indubitably I share with AE: had I somehow been forced into.. An Office! as a tyke.. I'd be daid by now, likely having taken some cow-orkers With Me. :-) :-/



Ed: PS

Have regularly reminded here of.. the Great Loss of 'radio serials', especially for tykes.
The modrin filling-in of All Stories via one person's/or a few: of The Visual--HAS--I aver:
greatly handicapped the creative Use nay Necessity: of possessing an active, fertile imagination!
(Irrelevant that so many plots were formulaic;) the exercise of, necessarily Filling-in-the-Visual, in real-time via mere voice reports:
at the times when neurons and mares-nests of interconnects Were Forming in the jelloware? Priceless.

(I can re-create some of the better/worthier, odd-plots still, including the Sound-track; hey, in The Lone Ranger it wasn't just William Tell Overture): the best IMO was their regular plagiarizing of Liszt's Les Preludes ...
as walking-around scene-change intervals. It was prescient, Meant to choreograph that particular weekly pot-boiler..

We're retarding growth in so Many ways via the constant distractions of gadzillions of throw-away corporate-hawked transistorized-Toys,
(many of which could have a beneficent effect: were they Rationed by insightful and Imaginative (!) parents, etc. Except: parents of today's kids also grew up sans Radio.
We still have Reading-to as a close approximation--where that occurs regularly, still. But at the poverty 2-jobs level/and in the evenings: [?]

Circle-jerk? Oh well.. easy come/ easy