Do you agree with this about Einstein and SR
- From: BernardZ <bernardZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:30:54 +1000
The follow is straight out of a book "Before the Fall-out" by Diana
Preston p483
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In the early 1930s, Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley, not James Chadwick at
the Cavendish, could easily have been first to the neutron, and could
also have beaten the Joliot-Curies to 'artificial' radioactivity and
Fermi to the production of radioactivity using neutrons. Insights into
the atom were shared and built on the work of others, as can be seen by
the usually high number of references in scientific papers. Good
examples of co-operation include Rutherford's and Bohr's work on atomic
structure and Bohr's debates with Heisenberg on uncertainty and
complementarity. Perhaps a particularly gifted individual can make two
or three years' difference. There are of course exceptions. Einstein's
paper on the special theory of relativity, which 'quietly amalgamated
space, time and matter into one fundamental unity', has no references
and cites no authorities. How long it would have taken for someone else
with his genius to emerge can only be guessed.
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