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Well said. I think Einstein himself used the same kind of analogous thinking to guide his intuition, and wouldn’t have been nearly as successful as he was witho
by IAmGraydon 2y ago
Well said. I think Einstein himself used the same kind of analogous thinking to guide his intuition, and wouldn’t have been nearly as successful as he was without allowing himself this sort of unbounded thinking. In the end, however, he proved these intuitions true or false with the light of math.
- XorNot 2y agoEinstein followed where the results lead - his primary breakthrough was assuming no wave-propagation medium was necessary, and accepting an absurd result on it's face by exploring the mathematical consequence (namely: speed of light is constant, as a result the passage of time can vary, there is no medium through which light propagates unlike all other known wave phenomena). You have grown up with a set of different analogies based on more modern theories: which is to say, you're letting the tail wag the dog: we have those analogies to explain physics to laymen, but the analogies don't inform the physics.