Today, March 14th, or 3/14, represents one of the most remarkable coincidences in the world of science, as we celebrate both Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday.
We also note, even more remarkably, that Stephen Hawking, the visionary theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author also died on this same date, 3/14, making today easily one of the most cerebral days of the year.
Pi, for those who delight in numbers and pay attention to such things is a mathematical constant or “universal” number, dividing the circumference by the diameter of any and all circles will yield the same result, 3.14 , or pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, a number that’s true for all circles, regardless of size, and thusly is celebrated on 3/14, March 14th, know as Pi Day.
Our tie-in to all this is Bill Berg’s beloved portrait of Einstein on our Green Parrot shutter, pictured here getting spruced up by Official Green Parrot Art Conservator Steve Heuel.
While we don’t see anyone on our corner splitting atoms anytime soon we all still would like to take a moment to wish a Happy Birthday to Mr. Einstein, and give our sincere thanks to Steven Hawking for his many contributions to astrophysics and his boundless personal inspiration to so many, as well as thank Mr. Berg for his inspiring and enduring fixture, and to say to all, Happy Pi Day!
Also pictured, a reading recommendation from our Little Free Library, apropos of the day.
“Einstein’s Dreams”, is the slender, highly imaginative 1993 novel by physicist Alan Lightman, a fictional series of poetic vignettes, recounting thirty dreams about time, relativity and physics, presented as the dreams of Albert Einstein, a young patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, in 1905, often referred to as Einstein’s “miracle year”, as he struggles to finish his theory of relativity, with each dream exploring a different version of time and how it might play out in the lives of the clerk’s fellow citizens.
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