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I agree with what you've said, but I dont think it contradicts the article. The article is about when to trust your intuition, e.g. when buying stocks. I don't
by dahfizz 8y ago
I agree with what you've said, but I dont think it contradicts the article. The article is about when to trust your intuition, e.g. when buying stocks. I don't think Einstein had to have the same level of faith in his own ideas to whiteboard them out a little to see if it was tennable.
- chrisco255 8y agoI think he did. Buying stocks is ultimately a private decision (unless you work for a firm), and it takes no special knowledge to buy them. But Einstein had to submit a paper to some of the smartest people on the planet for review. At any rate, yes, hypotheses are basically formed by intuition. They're not random guesses, that would be quite inefficient.
- dahfizz 8y agoI think there is a big difference between having an intuitive stroke of genius and then spending lots of time crafting a paper using rigorous mathematics and physics based on that idea. The later is not a process driven by intuition. And the former doesn't have a real cost like buying stocks do. If the idea popped into his head, but after an hour he realized the math didn't work, it would have been no big deal.
- chrisco255 8y agoI don't know if you know about his famous thought experiments imagining chasing light beams, but it was this intuitive insight that led him to discover relativity. He would have never gotten there through a formal process. Sure the math had to validate his hypothesis, but through hypothesis itself, the insight itself is the most important thing, because it was such an original idea.