Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe...
by JKCalhoun on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:30AM
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I think both are true. Timing plays a role but it requires the local (in a temporal sense) genius of the day to put together the pieces.
Plenty of other physicists were contemporaries of Einstein and did not see what he saw.
I suspect also that had Einstein instead lived in this modern age where, at least to this layman physics progress appears to be floundering, he too would have been struggling to stitch all the pieces together into some semblance of a whole.
Plenty of other physicists were contemporaries of Einstein and did not see what he saw.
I suspect also that had Einstein instead lived in this modern age where, at least to this layman physics progress appears to be floundering, he too would have been struggling to stitch all the pieces together into some semblance of a whole.