On this day 18 April 1955
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The great man himself.
It's always amused me that he got the Nobel for explaining the photelectric effect and not for Relativity, using wave-particle duality, a central idea behind the quantum mechanics that he didn't really hold with.
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Einstein is the symbol for "genius", but I wonder how he'd actually rank among other scientific geniuses. For instance, Darwin changed our perspectives just as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
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@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
Mr. Einstein helped win a World War, Mr. Darwin never did.
War can make a career, ask Mr. Biden.
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@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
@Copper said in On this day 18 April 1955:
Mr. Einstein helped win a World War
How so? That's news to me.
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1939-1942/einstein_letter.htm
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@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
Einstein is the symbol for "genius", but I wonder how he'd actually rank among other scientific geniuses. For instance, Darwin changed our perspectives just as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
How would you rank them? Chess players actually have an empirical number attached to their playing strength, arrived at by calculation, and people still argue about who the best player ever is.
I was only joking
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@Copper said in On this day 18 April 1955:
@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
Mr. Einstein helped win a World War, Mr. Darwin never did.
War can make a career, ask Mr. Biden.
Hitler did far more to win the war than Einstein, and you don't hear anybody calling him a genius.
I was only joking
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@Doctor-Phibes said in On this day 18 April 1955:
@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
Einstein is the symbol for "genius", but I wonder how he'd actually rank among other scientific geniuses. For instance, Darwin changed our perspectives just as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
How would you rank them? Chess players actually have an empirical number attached to their playing strength, arrived at by calculation, and people still argue about who the best player ever is.
I can't rank them. I merely find it curious that Einstein is so often singled out among the scientific geniuses as being the genius.
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@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
Einstein is the symbol for "genius", but I wonder how he'd actually rank among other scientific geniuses. For instance, Darwin changed our perspectives just as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
I think Darwin’s ideas time had come, to a greater extent than Einstein’s.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in On this day 18 April 1955:
@Copper said in On this day 18 April 1955:
@Klaus said in On this day 18 April 1955:
as much as Einstein did, but nobody considers Darwin to be a genius on the same level.
Mr. Einstein helped win a World War, Mr. Darwin never did.
War can make a career, ask Mr. Biden.
Hitler did far more to win the war than Einstein, and you don't hear anybody calling him a genius.
https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/michael-jackson-hitler-was-a-genius-26568838.html
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My grandmother saw him while he was on vacation. There were rumors he was in town, and she knows for a fact it was him. But she didn't go over to speak to him because she wanted to respect his privacy.
Kind of a strange idea these days.
(Then again, when I sized up Jake Gyllenhaal for a pair of bike shoes I found myself doing the same thing. Weird.)
