Sunday, April 26, 2009

Herr Professor Doctor Gustave M Squirrel and his friend Albert

We have just posted the latest in the Squirrel Chronicles. This one is about a squirrel, one Gustave, who studied under Max Planck and returns to Bern in 1903 to see his ailing mother. He befriends a young patent clerk, one Albert Einstein and the tale describes how three of the great papers were written from the perspective of a well educated squirrel.

This presents the development of the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and relativity from a slightly different perspective.