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Why is Albert Einstein so famous? What made him different from other scientists?

>> No.11007871

it's all relative

>> No.11007875

He brought really useful ideas from mathematics into the mainstream of theoretical physics and revolutionized our understanding of space and time. There was also a pretty quick turnaround for his theory to be verified by experiment. That'll propel anyone's career.

>> No.11007877

>>11007870
>Why is Albert Einstein so famous?
He presented a series of models that solved various serious problems of physics at the time, such as explaining how the speed of light can be the same for all observers while physics before Einstein predicted that this shouldn't be happening. His theories also completely changed how physicists view reality. All of this was completely revolutionary at the time.

>> No.11007882

>>11007877
>physics before Einstein predicted that this shouldn't be happening
technically it did. His first paper on the subject showed that Maxwell's equations were manifestly Lorentz covariant.

>> No.11007931

>>11007870
He was on television and radio. Like the first bill nye or NDT.

>> No.11007944

>>11007870
He successfully corrected Isaac Newton without just getting laughed at or ignored.
That's kind of like picking a fight with Muhammad Ali. If you had done that and actually won instead of just getting murdered you would be famous as fuck.

>> No.11007955

>>11007870
What makes this generation so much stupider than all the generations before it? Serious question.

>> No.11007959

>>11007955
They already know shit that others figured out for them and that gives a false indication of intelligence.

>> No.11007982

>>11007875
>He brought really useful ideas from mathematics into the mainstream of theoretical physics and revolutionized our understanding of space and time.
You haven't read anything about the history of physics/mathematics, have you.

>> No.11008047

>>11007870
He stole ideas from his students and assistants, many of whom were Black or female. The term "relativity" was actually coined by a Black woman named Harriet Jackson. Einstein was also most likely a rapist.

>> No.11008054

>>11007870
He did a lot more than relativity. He kickstarted quantum mechanics and helped shape it to a useful theory, he explained Brownian motion, developed a refrigerating system, explained single-sided erosion on rivers flowing north-south etc etc.

>> No.11008058

>>11008047
>Citation needed

>> No.11008059
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11008059

>>11007955
Arrogance

>> No.11008065

>>11008059
But arrogance.. er, I mean confidence is good for the economy! Teach your kid to be confident! Give him a trophy for everything, even when he goes doodoo in the toilet instead of on the fucking floor! What could go wrong!

>> No.11008273

>>11007875
>He brought really useful ideas from mathematics into the mainstream of theoretical physics
You mean Poincare did.

>> No.11008327

>>11008058
Why would you take that shitty b8?

>> No.11008331

>>11008047
needs a little more meat, should have gone for sex with barnyard animals

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>>11008273
and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olinto_De_Pretto
> Italian industrialist and geologist from Schio, Vicenza. There is evidence[1][2] that De Pretto may have been the first person to derive the energy–mass-equivalence E = m c 2 generally attributed to Albert Einstein. He suggested that radioactive decay of uranium and thorium was an example of mass transforming into energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_von_Soldner
>Soldner is now mostly remembered for having concluded — based on Newton's corpuscular theory of light — that light would be diverted by heavenly bodies. In a paper written in 1801 and published in 1804, he calculated the amount of deflection of a light ray by a star

>Albert Einstein calculated and published a value for the amount of gravitational light-bending in light skimming the Sun in 1911, leading Phillipp Lenard to accuse Einstein of plagiarising Soldner's result.

>> No.11008559

>>11008059

You have to realize who each of those groups were speaking to. Those on the left are talking to other intellectual members of their community while the one's on the right side are talking to everyday people that just cannot understand things beyond highschool-tier language for the most part.

>> No.11008562

>>11008559
>>11008059

But I take your point

>> No.11008571

>>11008562
take this!
>dabs