Albert Einstein was right

I recently kept an eye on Google Zeitgeist - statistics about the most recently used keywords in Googles search engine.


First of all, I have my doubts about this statistics. Everybody knows that Sex sells, as proved by statistics. There are no corresponding keywords in Google Zeitgeist. With a pigeon or two, Google seems to filter the keywords that would reveal the truth.

Second, the resulting keywords after the filtering (on an international level) are making me think. Seasonal topics like "Halloween" and celebrities like "Sandy Koufax", "Cindy Margolis" or "Mario Lemieux" (I never heard of them before!!) are dominating over worldwide politics. The cry of 16000 children that die every day because of hunger (one child every 5 seconds) remains unheard, and complex global problems such as climate change, energy, global dislocation or weapons of mass destruction are to be addressed tomorrow rather than today.

Some years ago, I remember that the following mathematical joke (which was said to be invented by Albert Einstein) was spread through EMails:

Time = Money (Well known fact)
Wisdom = Power (Well known fact)
Power = Work / Time (Physics)

This can be transformed into:

-> Wisdom = Work / Time
-> Wisdom = Work / Money
-> Money = Work /Wisdom

In other words: the more you work, and the less you know, the more money you will make! :-)


If we substitute '1/Wisdom' by 'Stupidity' then we get
-> Money = Work * Stupidity

Whereas Googles financial success and Google Zeitgeist are a direct prove of this formula.

q.e.d.