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To: PatrickHenry
The Newtonian laws of Physics have vastly more profound impact on science and engineering and vastly more applications than Einstein theories.

Newton is the greatest scientist of all times period. Einstein should not be even in the top 5.

10 posted on 11/23/2005 6:14:15 PM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: jveritas
Newton is the greatest scientist of all times period. Einstein should not be even in the top 5.

Just out of curiosity, would you list and rank your top 5?

67 posted on 11/23/2005 7:00:52 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: jveritas
The Newtonian laws of Physics have vastly more profound impact on science and engineering and vastly more applications than Einstein theories. Newton is the greatest scientist of all times period. Einstein should not be even in the top 5.

You obviously are not a physicist. This is a silly poll and even a sillier comment. If there are two peers that tower over all others in the world of physics it is these two. Relative importance given the separation in epochs and intervening development is impossible to establish. Einstein's ability to reason from prosaic observation to extremely profound truth is unmatched in science, and his contributions have been every bit as significant to the modern world as Newton. Of course you have to have read some of Einstein's papers to understand the true subtlety and profundity of his reasoning.

297 posted on 11/24/2005 11:50:29 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: jveritas
The Newtonian laws of Physics have vastly more profound impact on science and engineering and vastly more applications than Einstein theories.

So far... . But there is still time.

Newton would have greatly appreciated Einstein's Gen. Rel. explanation of action-at-a-distance by way of mass-distorted spacetime expressed as tensors.

340 posted on 11/25/2005 1:28:59 PM PST by Poincare
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