Pythagoras was wrong!(?)

If one visits a traditional barber shop for any reason — let’s say the now sadly defunct Roger’s Barber Shop in the vin-cinity of Detroit Michigan, a mere hop, skip, n’ jump “as the Ford flies” down the free-way (no toll, at least directly; for nothing is truly free…) to downtown Detroit… and we’re still waiting for the rail system connecting the region that maybe runs along the middle of Interstate 96 (“The Jeffries”) towards Grand Rapids, and we suspect that we shall wait even longer for this train to be built than it takes to develop proper and safe self-driving cars, or maybe the verification of alien life in the universe — j’ever think that, to the ayleens (if they exist), we are the ayleens? — in the same small shopping plaza as a Little Caesar’s pizzeria and a Quik-Pik convenience store — he may find a scattering of magazines available for reading while waiting for hot lather shaves and clipper’d perfections. Copies of Field n’ Stream type outdoorsmanly folios, Motor Trend, Popular … -Science and -Mechanics (both of ‘em), Car ’n’ Driver, et cetera are often at-the-ready for the waiting customers, and in addition to discussions about the latest fad-gadgets and reviews of new cars and trucks (one?), there is the occasional hyperbolic article headline claiming “Einstein was wrong!” Wow, right? That is quite a strong statement to make about der Professor’s famous work(s), and we remind any reader of these types of headlines that magazine editors are sometimes(?) not held to the same standards as those of academic journals or of the scientific community as a whole. To be sure, there have been occasions of spoofing in august academic realms [Note 3], along with the dreaded claims of plagiarism (express or implied). However, wrong in the scientific community is a distinctly different thing than wrong in other contexts, and sometimes merely means “slightly less correct,” which is a much nicer way to treat the memory of Herr Albert, don’t you think? <a href="https://medium.com/@nttp/pythagoras-was-wrong-30be2490374b">Read More</a>