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How old was Einstein when he published his theory on special relativity? The idea that age is a limiter on significant achievement is moronic.
by suifbwish 5y ago
How old was Einstein when he published his theory on special relativity? The idea that age is a limiter on significant achievement is moronic.
- jfengel 5y agoUh... 26. And he was 36 when he published general relativity. Which was his last really big achievement. Of course he still continued to produce a ton of work, many individual pieces of which would be considered a capstone achievement for many ordinary physicists. But a lot of his effort was spent on a unified field theory that never really came together. And a lot was spent on trying to prove that quantum mechanics was incomplete -- which turned out to have some useful discoveries that largely affirm that QM is complete (at least within its domain). In other words, he kinda was a model of somebody who did his best work before his mid-30s, and spent the rest of his career merely being very, very smart.