{"id":89061,"date":"2017-04-03T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=89061"},"modified":"2017-03-22T18:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:47:51","slug":"explaining-to-a-blind-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/explaining-to-a-blind-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining to a Blind Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party:\u00a0 “Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?”<\/p>\n

Einstein thought for a while and then he said, “I am very sorry, it is not really possible to explain relativity theory so quickly, but I will at least try to explain you why not.<\/p>\n

Once I went for a walk with a blind man on a warm summer afternoon.\u00a0 After a while we came to a restaurant and sat down at a table.\u00a0 I asked him, ‘Would you like a glass of milk?’ \u00a0‘I know what a glass is,’ the blind man said, ‘but what is milk?’\u00a0 ‘Milk is a white fluid,’ I replied.\u00a0 ‘Aha, I know what a fluid is,’ he said, ‘but what is white?’\u00a0 ‘White is the color of swans,’ I explained to him.\u00a0 ‘I know what a color is, but what are swans?’\u00a0 ‘Swans are big birds with a crooked neck.’\u00a0 ‘Oh, birds,’ the man exclaimed, ‘I have heard of birds.<\/p>\n

And what is crooked?’\u00a0 I took his arm, stretched it and said, ‘This is straight,’ then I bent it and said, ‘and this is crooked.’\u00a0 The man’s face turned into a happy smile and he said, ‘Now I finally know what milk is.'”<\/p>\n

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