Montblanc Albert Einstein

[Pterodactylus]

His first wife, being more intelligent than him did or checked all his math for him.

 

He'd be wanted by the FBI today.

 

Justice on the internet can be pretty arbitrary, n'est pas?

 

The math of special relativity is pretty trivial, a middle high school student can handle it. No super intelligence needed. The physical insight was that using the Fitzgerald-Poincaré-Lorentz transformations on the Maxwell equations would unify them into a single theory of electromagnetism.

 

The strange thing, given your theory, is that he carried on doing pretty intensive science long after parting from his first wife. General relativity, tensor formulation of gravity, unified field theory, and of course the entire dialogue on quantum theory with Born, Bohr, and Pauli, which went on into the 1950s.

 

Having stared at the picture posted by chiaroscuro (thanks, BTW) I have decided that the leftmost symbol is a capital cursive E, and that it's a q squared over the c squared. The E usage would be conventional, the q I have never seen used before, but it's a matter of taste what one denotes velocity by.

 

And I still want all your unwanted MB Einstein ink, please keep sending those bottles

 

Most already discovered things looking trivial when looking back....

But nobody before the one that actually discovered something did it, discovering something new is the genius part.

Looking back everything seems easy.

Edited April 6, 2013 by Pterodactylus

[seffrican]

His first wife, being more intelligent than him did or checked all his math for him.

 

He'd be wanted by the FBI today.

 

Justice on the internet can be pretty arbitrary, n'est pas?

 

The math of special relativity is pretty trivial, a middle high school student can handle it. No super intelligence needed. The physical insight was that using the Fitzgerald-Poincaré-Lorentz transformations on the Maxwell equations would unify them into a single theory of electromagnetism.

 

The strange thing, given your theory, is that he carried on doing pretty intensive science long after parting from his first wife. General relativity, tensor formulation of gravity, unified field theory, and of course the entire dialogue on quantum theory with Born, Bohr, and Pauli, which went on into the 1950s.

 

Having stared at the picture posted by chiaroscuro (thanks, BTW) I have decided that the leftmost symbol is a capital cursive E, and that it's a q squared over the c squared. The E usage would be conventional, the q I have never seen used before, but it's a matter of taste what one denotes velocity by.

 

And I still want all your unwanted MB Einstein ink, please keep sending those bottles

 

Most already discovered things looking trivial when looking back....

But nobody before the one that actually discovered something did it, discovering something new is the genius part.

Looking back everything seems easy.

 

You misunderstand me completely, sir. I said that the mathematics needed to understand special relativity is trivial. Not that the concepts were easy to understand. This was in response to Herr Olson's implication that it took someone cleverer than Einstein to work out the mathematics.

[Pterodactylus]

 

You misunderstand me completely, sir. I said that the mathematics needed to understand special relativity is trivial. Not that the concepts were easy to understand. This was in response to Herr Olson's implication that it took someone cleverer than Einstein to work out the mathematics.

 

Grüezi Seffrican,

 

sorry to misinterpreted your post, I should had read it more carefully.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I really hate it when I screw up, and delete a post.

 

OK, when Einstein got his Noble money he split it with his wife, she got to live off the interest, the children to get the money.She bought 3 apartment buildings in Zürich. Between 1914-1921 he did not support his family as he should have in today's world.

Yesterday's world, he had a good lawyer.

 

There are indications she had something to do with his work before the divorce of 1914....that she screwed the pouch with her degree work could well have to do with her illegitimate children she had with Einstein before their marriage. Back then it was Major Shame Finger to have bastards. Big time stress to have even the University Janitor look down on you...

 

IMO a man don't write letters with math problems to a woman and get only banal weather reports back, when she had studied differential and integral calculus, descriptive and projective geometry, mechanics, theoretical physics, applied physics, experimental physics, and astronomy.

 

I suspect the daughter from the second marriage used the fire place..as a shredder of letters that took credit from her father.

 

Lorentz, Poincaré, Einstein and Hilbert, is a real interesting cat's cradle of everyone of them being right, being the discover of parts of the same thing. Neither of the four was Newton.

Einstein got too much credit for too long...as doing it 'alone' but that's ok...Einstein did not invent the brick. He just put his brick on the bricks from before.

 

One of the major things Einstein did was to do away with the æther theory....now we have dark matter, in things just didn't balance out in the long run with out the æther. :ltcapd:

 

Now I like Arp. That's interesting....after fountain pens, paper and ink, investigating the universe is a simple thing.

Edited April 7, 2013 by Bo Bo Olson

[seffrican]

I really hate it when I screw up, and delete a post.

 

(...)

 

Now I like Arp. That's interesting....after fountain pens, paper and ink, investigating the universe is a simple thing.

 

Chip Arp is a good guy. We shared a very pleasant bottle of Valpolicella one conference lunchtime last century.

 

Most mathematicians and physicists I know still do their thinking on paper, the preferred tools being ultrafine rollerballs and .3 or .5mm mechanical pencils.

 

Now, would Einstein have used Montblanc Einstein in his pen? We can speculate forever.

[Sandy1]

 

> snip <

Not the only one [send half a bottle to seffrican, the other half to me].

 

I've only dip tested it and I like it a lot so far. Neutral grey inks that don't have some "dealbreaker" problem (no shading, for example, too light, too dark, too cool, too warm, strong smell, stainibg, etc.) are in themselves not that common. I don't need for it to also have a fancy sheen or to sparkle in the moonlight or have curative properties. I think the way it quickly turns from purple to grey is cool; icing on the cake. That said, it is a little pricey for 30ml. I was expecting the standard 60ml bottle.

 

Hi,

 

I'm glad we have yet another person who likes this ink.

 

I certainly agree that MBAE does not have any performance issues. That encourages me to go about exploring what a neutral Grey ink is about, with little risk exposure to breaching the performance envelope.

 

Bye,

S1

[seffrican]

 

> snip <

Not the only one [send half a bottle to seffrican, the other half to me].

 

I've only dip tested it and I like it a lot so far. Neutral grey inks that don't have some "dealbreaker" problem (no shading, for example, too light, too dark, too cool, too warm, strong smell, stainibg, etc.) are in themselves not that common. I don't need for it to also have a fancy sheen or to sparkle in the moonlight or have curative properties. I think the way it quickly turns from purple to grey is cool; icing on the cake. That said, it is a little pricey for 30ml. I was expecting the standard 60ml bottle.

 

Hi,

 

I'm glad we have yet another person who likes this ink.

 

I certainly agree that MBAE does not have any performance issues. That encourages me to go about exploring what a neutral Grey ink is about, with little risk exposure to breaching the performance envelope.

 

Bye,

S1

 

I'm not so glad, I was hoping to get it all for myself...MWAHHAHA!!

 

That said, the rest of you all complain about it and say how you don't want it, but I just checked my mail and there isn't a single bottle of MBE in there yet.

[Sandy1]

I defiantly would not have the patience to be as thorough as you were while making this review. Great Job! :clap1:

Hi,

 

Thanks for the compliment!

 

This is actually one of my 'short format' Reviews - only three pens were used.

 

Bye,

S1

[Sandy1]

Thanks. Great review, very comprehensive.

 

I have to agree with you. I thought the MBAE looked interesting in the bottle, but disappointing on the page.

I've currently got a 149 full of it - and it's getting less use than it normally does. I'd class it as a very ordinary ink.

 

The packaging (box and bottle) are also pretty handsome - but, to me, that just adds to the disappointment of the contents.

 

AFAIK it's still available in UK boutiques at around £11 for a 30ml bottle.

 

Thanks.

Hi,

 

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked the Review

 

When I'm back amongst my inks, pens & papers, I intend to give MBAE a fair go in my 149+B; I use that pen mostly with the IG Midnight Blue, so it may be an interesting adventure.

 

I wonder if we'll see MBAE selling at fire sale prices any time soon.

 

Bye,

S1

[rtzfrtz]

I like Einstein. I like most everything about him. I was attracted to Einstein ink immediately. I thought the shade was uncommon compared to other darker grays, but being a noob, I was not aware of what other grays there were. Since looking around, I also have took notice of J. Herbin Gris Nuage and Iroshizuku Old Man Winter, which I will purchase later. I like those very much. There are also a couple of others that interest me. I have also found some artwork done exclusively in gray(Einstein), and think it is awesome stuff. I haven't actually used any yet, but have some interesting concepts of what I would like to do with it when I get mine. One curious think about Einstein Ink for me is, is how well it identifies him, or with him, and all of the pale B&W photos of him from the past. What better color is there for an Einstein ink? His suits, his hair, the blackboard and chalk? That "is" Einstein ink! Perfect! Einstein=gray matter! It couldn't be any more clear. There are colors, there is black and white, there are 50 shades of gray, and beyond that is "Einstein Ink"!

[CAG_1787]

Perhaps the very varied opinions of this ink just go to prove ... it's all relative.

 

(Sorry, I just had to)

 

Or maybe that was the point of the ink in the first place...

[seffrican]

Perhaps the very varied opinions of this ink just go to prove ... it's all relative.

 

(Sorry, I just had to)

 

Or maybe that was the point of the ink in the first place...

 

I understand you had to, but it still raised a groan here....

[nostalgic]

A great thread that I have truly enjoyed.

 

But I always thought that a neutral, "true" gray ink (like a nice gray flannel suit) was supposed to be bland and unremarkable--and yes, even dull and boring. The interesting part is in its subtlety, if it has any, and perhaps how it interacts with more stimulating colors. Why should we expect something that it was never meant to be?

[Poseidon]

A great thread that I have truly enjoyed.

 

But I always thought that a neutral, "true" gray ink (like a nice gray flannel suit) was supposed to be bland and unremarkable--and yes, even dull and boring. The interesting part is in its subtlety, if it has any, and perhaps how it interacts with more stimulating colors. Why should we expect something that it was never meant to be?

 

I agree. Grey is, well, grey. I suspect people are expecting some metallic sheen due to earlier speculations.

[Chi Town]

To me this is a very pretty color!, even if it is a Grey........

[Sandy1]

A great thread that I have truly enjoyed.

 

But I always thought that a neutral, "true" gray ink (like a nice gray flannel suit) was supposed to be bland and unremarkable--and yes, even dull and boring. The interesting part is in its subtlety, if it has any, and perhaps how it interacts with more stimulating colors. Why should we expect something that it was never meant to be?

Hi,

 

As usual, other Members add considerably to the initial Topic.

 

MBAE does seem a very neutral Grey, and if it wasn't for the shading, it would be profoundly bland. It just doesn't engage me or go anywhere, much like Black ink.

 

When running an ink through the review process, I try not to presume the ink makers' intentions, (even the ingenious Mr Tardiff who posts videos for some inks), so I take the ink as I see it, then wait for other Members to share their thoughts & experiences. Clearly I hope to learn from other Members: do they see something that escapes me? And in the case of MBAE, I brought very little to the party.

 

I haven't had much time for concerted explorations, and will definitely try some tinted papers as you suggest.

 

I keep a few samples Of MBAE to hand for impromptu viewing - waiting for an epiphany.

 

Bye,

S1

[Bigeddie]

Although I struggle to use them, I do quite like grey inks; I find them formal and different at the same time. Of the grey inks I have MBAE has become a favourite because of it's higher density and neutral colour. Others (including J Herbin Gris Nuage, Omas Grey)I find much too light for everyday use. I know I have seen people in the past asing for a 'shading black' (?!), maybe this is just the thing for them.

 

Exciting, no, but A nice alternative to black.

 

Thanks for an exciting review though S1

[Sandy1]

To me this is a very pretty color!, even if it is a Grey........

Hi,

 

Ah!

 

Could neutral Grey actually be considered a colour unto inself?

 

Bye,

S1

[FountainPenCollector1994]

Hello everyone! I have been trying very hard to find this ink and Montblanc's Alfred Hitchcock. It seems impossible of course. I would so much appreciate if someone would be generous enough to send a sample or trade or something along those lines. Thank you so much!