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shivaas
i would guess that they'd update the doodle tomorrow morning PST...
acchow
Have they been doing it every year?
neeraj_r
But this year, this day there is no doodle for them.. So why they are not ready to put one?
tzs
Just because it is Einstein's birthday in your frame doesn't mean it is Einstein's birthday in Google's frame. That's one of the things Einstein taught us.

Edit: speaking of Einstein and relativity, Amazon has a new Kindle edition of "Relativity: The Special and General Theory" by Einstein, which was his attempt to explain the theories to the intelligent layman, for only $0.99. [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Special-Readable-Equations-...

jychang
Haha, that's pretty funny. Still, this depends on the definition of "birthday" and what frame the birthday is defined in. Say google was traveling at near lightspeed and time dilated 2x, so it's around Einstein's half birthday in their frame. If I had a wormhole that connects both frames, what is the correct solution?
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sturadnidge
They haven't been doing it every year, it's not that awkward. To me they have seemed a bit more esoteric recently, which is not a bad thing at all.

http://www.google.com/doodles/about

neeraj_r
http://www.google.com/doodles/ramon-gomez-cornets-115th-birt... http://www.google.com/doodles/ryunosuke-akutagawas-121st-bir... http://www.google.com/doodles/victor-brecherets-119th-birthd... http://www.google.com/doodles/arthur-schopenhauer-225th-birt... http://www.google.com/doodles/edward-goreys-88th-birthday http://www.google.com/doodles/nasir-al-din-al-tusis-812th-bi... http://www.google.com/doodles/nicolaus-copernicus-540th-birt... http://www.google.com/doodles/anne-cath-vestlys-93rd-birthda... etc, etc, etc... :)