Re: Einstein is my hero

Robert Kolker wrote: 
Sam Wormley wrote:

FrediFizzx wrote:

Amen!  The man was a giant that stood on the shoulders of other giants.


Not so... A. Einstein pretty much started from scratch.


Well, he was inspired by Maxwell's electrodynamics. 

  Yes-- the *unification* of electricity and magnetism Maxwell achieved
  profoundly affected Einstein.


However Einstein's
approaches were sui generis. Who else would have had the cojones to revive Newton's particulate theory of light? And getting past our prejudices concerning the absoluteness of time was a gigantic accomplishment. Even Lorentz who had the same equations in hand, did not make the leap.

Bob Kolker



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