Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd (1)

Science is arguably one of the most pivotal disciplines we as humankind have at our disposal.  I am grateful to have had good grounding and practice in it, as I labored at my PhD in clinical psychology at Northwestern University.  It has a prominent place in my Theory of Algorithms and in The Tripartite Model in particular.  So, for this week's articles, I share my posts on Google+ about a household-name scientist and his not-so-household-name colleague and how their fateful collaboration staked a horrific pivot in human history.  I had posted these as a linear narrative, but here I thought I'd do so more (I hope) as a serial drama, that is, in five parts. 

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Leó Szilárd was a Hungarian-American physicist, who solved a problem that Albert Einstein thought was too impractical to solve.

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It was a startling discovery and an enigmatic equation to say a small amount of mass (m) could produce phenomenal energy (E), that is, because of the large figure that is the speed of light (c).

An atomic bomb of the 'Little Boy' type, which was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan

Szilárd figured out how to enable Einstein’s equation, and it led directly to the creation of the atomic bomb.