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Einstein's modification of Classical Newtonian Physics is still unparalled today.

• goldenkey 10y ago
  But this infallible picture of Einstein almost discounts all the work the man put in. Yes, he was extremely intelligent but he also worked hard as hell to learn the mathematics necessary for his work in physics. And it took him years before he dropped the stubborn idea of a static universe because Hubble was able to see the galaxies outside our local group getting further away, an expanding universe no doubt. [1] It does everyone a favor these days, to actually know that Einstein's accomplishments are in reach for many fields like number theory and physics. Intelligence and creativity, an intuition and desire to understand what makes ones' heart/brain/physical body tick. I hate the bastardization of the immense work that Einstein undertook, he didn't just genius out these ideas. He worked for them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant
• venomsnake 10y ago
  In his time we also had Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger - whose contributions are as foundational and unparallel too. But nobody is the media is obsessed with proving Max Planck wrong. Or Schrodinger. "Will scientists finally prove XXX wrong", XXX is always Einstein.
  • Jenya_ 10y ago
    yes, the others, if Heisenberg (or other German scientists) would be a bit more smarter then WWII may have ended differently and in that new world no one would be praising Einstein, for obvious reasons: http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/8491/did-heisenberg-undermine-the-german-atomic-bomb-by-deliberately-hiding-his-exper http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/8491/did-heisenbe...