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I 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 ph
by dahfizz 8y ago
I 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.