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Who are the Einsteins in other fields? (i.e. people who discover stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been discovered for generations)
by newsbinator 5y ago
Who are the Einsteins in other fields?
(i.e. people who discover stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been discovered for generations)
- avmich 5y agoThere are many great researches, but "who discover stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been discovered for generations"... Aristotle (as a long-standing basis for pre-sciences) and a plethora of ancient scientists (Archimedes... Democritus...), Newton (who, of course, stood on the shoulders of Galilei, among others, but still saw far)... By the way, special relativity could - speculatively - be discovered relatively soon by somebody else, at least such an opinion is rather well known and some support. General relativity was a focus of work of David Hilbert - it maybe less clear, but it could also be discovered within decades. Photoelectric effect and quantum phenomena (ER bridge...) maybe less well known, but at least solutions of GR equations started to appear rather early. So even Einstein maybe not that unique.
- credit_guy 5y ago> stood on the shoulders of Galilei Why Galilei and not Kepler?Newton obviously derived the law of gravity from Kepler's laws. Kepler was an absolute giant, and his contribution would not have been possible without Tycho Brahe, another giant. We will never know who the "giants" were, or maybe it was just a pure expression of modesty, but if there were some, I think they were Kepler and Brahe, not Galilei.
- avmich 5y agoI think - just an opinion - both Newton and Galilei thought about higher level things than Kepler and Brahe, more general - be that "basic principle of relativity" or general motion of matter. I'd like to listen to science historians on this matter.