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Maybe so, but he still rules because of relativity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power

by devmonk 16y ago

acangiano 16y ago
I don't think that the article claims that Einstein doesn't rule.
- bitwize 16y ago
  It says we shouldn't deify guys like him and Feynman, but I think that stating they're at or near the upper boundary of human awesomeness is still okay.
eru 16y ago
What does Einstein have to do with Nuclear Power? Just to stop one answer: The mass-energy equivalence works as well for lighting a fire or for water-turbines as for nuclear energy. And yes, Einstein did some initial work on quantum mechanics.
- ithkuil 16y ago
  "Einstein's greatest role in the invention of the atomic bomb was signing a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging that the bomb be built." http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml where he cites the work made by Fermi el al. The first artificial nuclear reactor was built in 1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1) Einstein's relativity theory and the equivalence of mass and energy is commonly cited has having laid the ground for the exploitation of the energy from nuclear decay, but I have the feeling that research in the nuclear energy field would have continued and yield some interesting results even without knowing that E=MC^2 beforehand.
  - eru 16y ago
    And that letter wasn't very influential anyway, from all that I read.
  - devmonk 16y ago
    Anyone could do almost anything without others' influence if given enough time, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate those that move things along faster and those that bring the science to the forefront. Einstein did a tremendous amount for related fields of research and the world in-general, not only through his work, but by becoming a superstar and elevating the role of science in our lives. If he could go from patent clerk to a world-renown scientist, then surely others could as well.

Maybe so, but he still rules because of relativity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power

by devmonk 16y ago

Maybe so, but he still rules because of relativity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power

acangiano 16y ago

I don't think that the article claims that Einstein doesn't rule.

bitwize 16y ago
It says we shouldn't deify guys like him and Feynman, but I think that stating they're at or near the upper boundary of human awesomeness is still okay.

eru 16y ago

What does Einstein have to do with Nuclear Power? Just to stop one answer: The mass-energy equivalence works as well for lighting a fire or for water-turbines as for nuclear energy. And yes, Einstein did some initial work on quantum mechanics.

ithkuil 16y ago
"Einstein's greatest role in the invention of the atomic bomb was signing a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging that the bomb be built." http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml where he cites the work made by Fermi el al. The first artificial nuclear reactor was built in 1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1) Einstein's relativity theory and the equivalence of mass and energy is commonly cited has having laid the ground for the exploitation of the energy from nuclear decay, but I have the feeling that research in the nuclear energy field would have continued and yield some interesting results even without knowing that E=MC^2 beforehand.
- eru 16y ago
  And that letter wasn't very influential anyway, from all that I read.
- devmonk 16y ago
  Anyone could do almost anything without others' influence if given enough time, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate those that move things along faster and those that bring the science to the forefront. Einstein did a tremendous amount for related fields of research and the world in-general, not only through his work, but by becoming a superstar and elevating the role of science in our lives. If he could go from patent clerk to a world-renown scientist, then surely others could as well.