/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5368521]

Why is Einstein often considered to be the face of genius when this man was much more brilliant? Is it because Einstein was a jew?

[Anonymous No.5368535]

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[Anonymous No.5368539]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon

[Anonymous No.5368544]

>why is Einstein iconic
Because because.

[Anonymous No.5368545]

Fuck intelligence,knowledge or accomplishment. Its all about hair and mustache.

[Anonymous No.5368553]

>>5368521
because this is just some old guy, Einstein looked like a mad scientist.

[Anonymous No.5368559]

>this man was much more brilliant
Opinion.

Trash.

[Anonymous No.5368563]

I think a lot of it has to do with circumstance. Einstein wasn't a distinguished professor at some prestigious university, he was poor patent clerk that did physics fun. He was an outlier.

[Anonymous No.5368568]

>Is it because Einstein was a jew?

Probably.

[Anonymous No.5368580]

>>5368521

fuck this guy, thanks to him I had to learn about the pauli exclusion principle in chemistry.

[Anonymous No.5368583]

>>5368521
0/10
Pauli was a jew, too. As was Bohr, Ehrenfaust, Wigner, Oppenheimer and like half of the otherr greatest physicists of last century.

[Anonymous No.5368588]

>implying Dirac wasnt much more brilliant than Pauli

Relativistic spin matrices > non-relativistic spin matrices, faggot.

[Anonymous No.5368589]

And very few people are aware of Feynman.

[Anonymous No.5368591]

>>5368521
>Is it because Einstein was a jew?
Probably. Considering the time he lived in. Being a jew would have provided a lot of attention.

He was a posterboy.

[Anonymous No.5368594]

>>5368521
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Minkowski

Deserve more respect than Einstein for their contributions towards SR/GR.

[Anonymous No.5368598]

>>5368559
>trash
Opinion.

[Anonymous No.5368602]

>ITT: Freshmen in charge of who is brilliant.

[Anonymous No.5368600]

>>5368594
Poincaré didn't believe in set theory, he deserves no respect whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.5368645]

>>5368594
What I don't understand...
Hadn't Lorentz already done the groundwork for SR with his equations? I mean, do the verbal descriptions of SR not just follow from interpretations of Lorentz's work?

I should also ask, on the photoelectric effect which is credited to Einstein. It was the E=hf equation which nailed it, and that was the work of Planck, no? Planck observed E=hf in terms of light, and Einstein simply applied this to electrons?

[Anonymous No.5368660]

There are a lot of very brilliant people that pop culture has forgotten, because there isn't much room at the top.

[Anonymous No.5369131]

Although there are a lot of unrecognized people who helped Einstein throughout the development of Electrodynamics of Bodies in Motion and further papers. And General Theory of Relativity. These ideas were extremely obscure by the standard of the day. As most people tough the the Universe was pretty much static and eternal. Einstein changed the whole picture of Space, then becoming known as Space-time, as he discovered the time is a tangible property of space. The equations and ideas derived such as Time Dilation and Length Contraction, these are very radical ideas. Except they've been proven by every single experiment done. The equations perfectly describe everything too. SR/GR have withstood every single experiment thrown at them. Because Einstein did all these through thought experiments too makes it very remarkable.
I'm not denying there are other great Physicists out there. So many more people have done incredible work too. SR/GR are also used every day too. Einstein revolutionized modern Physics.

[Anonymous No.5369148]

>>5368600

To be fair, plenty of geniuses denied Set theory and understandably so. It's just so... fucking weird.