Celebrating Albert Einstein's impact on his birthday

March 14 is known as Pi Day for the famous mathematical equation, but it's also Albert Einstein's birthday. Chris McGinness looked into his immense impact on the world.

[dennisrohatyn]

Albert Einstein was born on this date (March 14, 1879)
in Ulm, Germany. Yes, Einstein is 146 years old today.
My, how space-time flies! Wish Albert a happy birthday.
Light a nuclear candle, but please do it carefully, unless
your idea of having Pi in the sky is blowing out the whole
expanding universe! Now that takes the Hubbellian cake . . .

[Azazel]

As if you lot have the FIRST CLUE about unified theory. Lol. You're children

[SciD]

The cult of Einstein is one of the most absurd spectacles in modern intellectual history—a fusion of blind hero worship, historical revisionism, and media-driven mythology. Propped up by political opportunism and a desperate need for a scientific Messiah, his name is parroted by people who have never read a single equation of his work, let alone understood its implications. His status as the untouchable genius of the 20th century has less to do with scientific merit and more with a carefully curated narrative—one that ignores the contributions of those before and around him, while elevating half-baked thought experiments into dogma. The fact that every minor engineering feat, from GPS to your microwave, is mindlessly credited to his theories is proof that most of his worshippers are merely regurgitating pop-science slogans without an ounce of critical thinking. If Einstein had declared that the sky was made of cheese, the cultists would have spent a century bending reality to justify it.