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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by coldtea on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:13AM (#36812909)
>I think what it took was not a super-genius, but someone smart who was willing to embrace the weirdness and take these ideas together to their logical conclusion.

Who says that doesn't take super-genius?

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by kwhitefoot on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:11AM (#36813980)
Not necessarily. Einstein himself said that his greatest advantage over others mathematical physicists was that he was willing to stay with a problem longer.

I'm not disagreeing that he was a genius, only that genius is a very ill-defined term.

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