[lit-ideas] Re: Einstein


Le 28 oct. 05, à 00:45, Andy Amago a écrit :

I saw some of the PBS show on Albert Einstein a while back.  I have to say that I was disappointed in Einstein.  Knowing nothing about him except that he came up with the theories of relativity, I always assumed he was a genius.  Now I learn that he spent 10 years obsessing over the nature of light, after ten years of which he had an aha moment.  It seems to me that if I spent ten years obsessively thinking about something and reading about it and talking about it with fellow physicists (assuming I were a physicist) and looking at it from all angles, I too, might have come up with it (seriously, no, seriously). 

M.C. I, for one, seriously hope that Mr. Amago does precisely that. The world could always use one more genius-level physicist. After all, there are lots of physical problems still awaiting solution : he might spend his initial ten years working on linking relativity (another silly little discovery that lazy old Einstein spent God knows how many years working on) with quantum mechanics (the work of no-account layabouts like Bohr, Schrodinger and Heisenberg). This would be a tremendous boon to mankind, and a much more productive way to spend one's time than writing asinine messages to lit-ideas. Seriously, no, seriously.

  
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France

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