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General relativity, they haven't found a dent in it yet.

• User23 5y ago
  Quantum mechanics certainly provides a dent as it were.
• jll29 5y ago
  There are some who claim there is evidence that "Albert Einstein" is really a shortcut/brand name for the husband-and-wife team comprising Albert and his first wife Mileva Maric; I read somewhere that they decided to put only his name on the papers to make it more likely that he may get a permanent job. His wife and fellow student certainly was intellectually involved, and Albert wrote to his wife once: "How happy I am to have found in you an equal creature". She was smart yet failed her final exams. (He left her for his own cousin.)
• joe__f 5y ago
  General relativity was not produced in isolation, there were a number of other big names in mathematics and physics at the time trying to find a relativistic theory of gravitation. Einstein will have been discussing with the other physicists and been familiar with their work. See for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstr%C3%B6m%27s_theory_of_gravitation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstr%C3%B6m%27s_theory_of...
  • tiborsaas 5y ago
    In that sense, the vast majority of inventions aren't original or created in a vacuum, we all build on the top of giants.