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First sentence, second paragraph: > Hawking was a huge world-wide celebrity, widely considered by the public and the press to be the modern-day analog of Einst
by ragnese 6y ago
First sentence, second paragraph:
> Hawking was a huge world-wide celebrity, widely considered by the public and the press to be the modern-day analog of Einstein, dominating the field of theoretical physics.
The implied message here and the rest of the article is that the public and the press are wrong about him.
- morelisp 6y agoNo, I don't think that's a fair reading. The article (and more importantly perhaps, the book the article is discussing) say perhaps Hawking should not have dominated the field of theoretical physics for so long, especially in the popular imagination. That says nothing about where his sum contributions stand, only the direction his research took later in his career. If I were to read anything into the comparison, it's that - as also suggested in this thread - Einstein is perhaps also overblown compared to Einstein.