Einstein was a genius. His work on Special Relativity, General Relativity, and the Photoelectric Effect...all were awesome.
But even though he lived until 1955, he did nothing of note after 1920. Some geniuses burn out early. I had the same problem. My best scholastic work was done in the 2nd grade.
Einstein was just a Patent Office clerk.
He benefitted from his occupation. If he did not discover E=mc^2, others were around the corner. Einstein had no real formal education to carry him oneward. All discoverers of new formulas were one trick ponies.
The exception was Ben Franklin, the most prolific inventer, who also was a product of his time. Electricity, and its many forms, was waiting to be discovered.
The Science picks the inventor.
I made it to Junior High ...
I remember reading a piece about the grand masters of classical music. It stated that most of them produced their best known works before the age of thirty.
Look at some of the music masters of our own era, and you find the same thing.
That's not to say that all masters burn out at that age. There have been some notable exceptions, but as a rule, most great artists have emptied their quiver by the age of thirty.
My best scholastic work was done in the 2nd grade.
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I was kicked out of kindergarden. It was all uphill for me after that.
” I had the same problem. My best scholastic work was done in the 2nd grade.”
I had a photographic memory until I was 7 then I ran out of film.
Einstein’s Unified Theory was an attempt to unite his galactic scale of physics with the quantum scale of physics. He was striving for one theory to cover everything.
To this end, he developed and refined important mathematics and came to make stunning observations. But he could not quite achieve his goal.
He could not achieve his goal because of a deeper theory dealing with a concept known as ‘Incompleteness’. This theory was advanced by a contemporary of Einstein’s at Princeton, Kurt Goedel.
Goedel’s philosophy underlies theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
Goedel, like Einstein, had suffered under Nazi aggression and came to the USA to the Advanced Institute at Princeton. Einstein became his biggest admirer and made it a habit to walk with Goedel at lunchtime to discuss Goedel’s views of the human mind and its limits in developing scientific theory.
Although Goedel was never as famous as Einstein, he is just as important, perhaps even more important in this era of computing and AI.
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Einstein was a genius. His work on Special Relativity, General Relativity, and the Photoelectric Effect...all were awesome.
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He was a genius, but there are quite a few geniuses. Einstein was in the right place at the right time with the right idea. He was also an outsider which was key to his early work.
To make it short, at the time, positing that matter was formed by particles was taboo. It would be like denying climate change today.
The idea that matter was made of particles was key to Einstein’s miracle papers. Einstein’s work as a student also involved particles. I imagine he was assigned such because his advisors didn’t like him.
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