Came across this rumour regarding Mr. Albert Einstein. This had been refuted and argued that its a myth, a story. Many versions of it has been published as well, but the crux of it remains the same. Since it cannot be verified im gonna take it as that. These are some excerpts from this particular version that I really liked. The original story consists of an argument between a professor and a student (presumably Einstein in this case).
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Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events )
Student : Sir,
you can have lots of heat, even more Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White
Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat.But we don't have anything called Cold.
We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go
any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence
of it.
Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness
is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light,
Bright Light, Flashing Light. But if you have No Light constantly,
you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn't it? In reality,
Darkness isn't. If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness
Darker, wouldn't you?
