[lit-ideas] Re: Einstein
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:53:27 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/28/2005 9:28:34 AM
> Subject: [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.
> >
I would think your reply brilliant if it didn't completely miss the mark of
what I was getting at. I never belittled Einstein's accomplishments. You
deleted the section that was the crux of my point: without ten years of
obsessive-level work, his intelligence was meaningless. Einstein was
obsessed much more than he was intelligent. 10% inspiration, 90%
perspiration, you read that part, right? So, other than insulting me, what
exactly is your point?
Andy Amago
> >
> Michael Chase
> (goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> CNRS UPR 76
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> France
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