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Why No 'New Einstein'?

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:17 am    Post subject: Why No 'New Einstein'? Reply with quote
On the hundredth anniversary of Einstein's discovery of special relativity, why is there no new Einstein today?

Read how Lee Smolin answered this question in the June 2005 issue of Physics Today:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/no-new-einstein.pdf

I was not surprised by this basic principle:

Those who follow large well-supported research programs have lots of powerful senior scientists to promote their careers. People with the uncanny ability to ask new questions or recognize unexamined assumptions are often underappreciated.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Maybe Einstein was given a special insight for a purpose?
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