Why March 14th?
Because March 14th is Einstein’s birthday Because March 14 (also written as 3.14 in US), is the international Pi Day Because 2009 is the year of science and March is the month of physics We have talked about having a day that is dedicated to Physics / Physicists for a long time but the impetus for starting this site came from some recent posts by Jennifer Ouellette on her Cocktail Physics Blog. My first thought was to use a universal constant to pick a date for the Talk Like a Physicist Day and I considered using fine structure constant as a starting point. But 1/137.03 does not lend it self to a pseudo date. I thought about using 137 the day of the year, but the constant is 1/137, should we count 137 from the end of the year? It just wasn’t working. The next possibility was the birthday of a famous physicist – Newton’s birthday is on 25th December and that date is, lets just say, it is taken. So the obvious next choice was Einstein’s birthday, which is on March 14th. It was a curious
