Date: November 04, 2009 @ 8:22 AM
Einstein in the Vineyard
While grape growing has become far more of a science than it used to be, (they study calculus, physics, biology) even we were shocked by the recent cameo appearance of Albert Einstein in our vineyards. The camera doesn’t lie.
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The ghost of Albert Einstein (Grant Hemingway, Far Niente Vineyards, Vineyard Manager) |
We worry about getting plenty of light in the vineyard but the speed of light (Einstein said it was an absolute at about 300,000 kilometers per second) has not been tied to grape quality or vineyard yields. Grant, who was channeling the Big E, did start talking about “Dark Matter” but we finally realized that he was differentiating between red and white grapes.
Ultimately, Einstein left when he found out that the Nobel committee doesn’t award prizes for viticulture and when he discovered that he died 54 years ago (unless he has been travelling backwards at the speed of light for a really really long time).
