|
Register | Sign In |
|
QuickSearch
EvC Forum active members: 63 (9161 total) |
| |
popoi | |
Total: 915,575 Year: 2,832/9,624 Month: 677/1,588 Week: 83/229 Day: 55/28 Hour: 1/10 |
Thread ▼ Details |
|
Thread Info
|
|
|
Author | Topic: The next Einstein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
notwise Inactive Member |
http://www.usatoday.com/...ce/2005-04-26-next-einstein_x.htm
Not Found - The New York Times Isnt this exciting?Physics is waiting for the next Einstein. I want to hear {spelling edited by AdminJar} peoples speculations about the next Einstein if there is one. I would like to hear about what people will think he will be like and the exciting places he will take physics, the problems he will have getting recognized. I just like to speculate about such things. This message has been edited by AdminJar, 06-28-2005 12:36 PM
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sylas Member (Idle past 5250 days) Posts: 766 From: Newcastle, Australia Joined: |
Many dramatic developments in science take place without a single clearly defined individual standing out from the rest, and even in cases where there is an outstanding individual, the human propensity for telling stories will sometimes single out one individual a bit beyond what is really warranted.
My view: the next major development has already taken place. It was quantum mechanics; a development which is substantially more dramatic and significant than relativity. But it does not have an easily identified hero. Curiously, Einstein himself received a Nobel prize, and it was not for relativity. It was for his work on the photoelectric effect and quantum mechanics. But Einstein does not stand out as the one great leader in this development. No one individual does; this is a case where you can't so easily tell the story with a single hero. There were Schroedinger, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, and many others. Cheers -- Sylas
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Modulous Member Posts: 7799 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
The next Einstein will be the one who makes the leap and formulates the Grand Unified Theory. I speculate that the next Einstein will be long dead before the wonderous possibilities of the maths are even tapped, and the implications are truly understood. As Sylas said, his work will be largely contributory in nature, but it will be this work that is said to be the big one.
I doubt it will usher in a new age of mankind or anything, but I hope I'm around to see it. This message has been edited by Modulous, Tue, 28-June-2005 07:18 PM
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harrism Inactive Member |
I wouldnt be so sure; the next einstein will find a way of making himself known, whether as a kid or as an adult he wont be able to keep his ideas to himself.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mansouryar Inactive Member |
Hi everybody,
The next Einstein is alive and is just a kid and is Iranian and ... is me! Maybe it's not cool to address the members of one forum to another, but I assume you're enough open-minded and invite you to visit this 3-pages discussion; http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?showtopic=2... Farewell P.S.: Maybe we could launch a similar dicussion, OK?
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CK Member (Idle past 4118 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
As a millionare with too much time on my hands I'd love to invest in your Spacewarp idea - sadly I just signed a deal with a different scientific group to fund their work on a anti-gravity engine.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mansouryar Inactive Member |
Hi CK,
Thanks for your words. Hmmm, let me see, if you've read my paper you'd know my plan is so huge and complicated that anti-gravity is just a part of it (to reduce tidal forces on the passing spacecraft and humanoid passengers). By the way, I'm a cool guy and I could work with all trends (maybe if you'd give me the (possible) website of those your partners, I could become a friend of them!); maybe the results of that team could be useful for the bigger idea of a practical spacewarp and that can't be problematic if you really could support the finance of the project.Besides, anti-gravity machines could give you an incredible ability to travel on the ground and air but I don't think you could go by them very far from the earth, but spacewarps could cause interstellar and intergalactic travels ... How about that one, man? However, that's your money and you should decide how to spend it. Anyway, I enjoyed of you message. Cheers,Mammad
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nator Member (Idle past 2160 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I think that she will have no problems getting recognitzion. Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Son Goku Inactive Member |
I would like to hear about what people will think he will be like and the exciting places he will take physics, the problems he will have getting recognized.
There is several directions to go in at the moment.They could resolve the R evolution issue in Quantum Mechanics(the measurement paradox). Or how General Relativity's block time approach to causality can be reconciled with QM's more conventional one. As well as several other conceptual questions raised by putting Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity together. There are also Witten type geniuses. This kind may solve problems like giving Quantum Field Theory a rigorous mathematical foundation, or solving the Navier-Stokes equation.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
crashfrog Member (Idle past 1457 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
I think that she will have no problems getting recognitzion. So apparently you don't think this figure will emerge for about one thousand years?
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Omnivorous Member Posts: 3973 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
I think the next Einstein will likely be an artificial intelligence. Our machines are already faster, stronger, and play better chess.
When we say, Brainiac, destroy the insolent inhabitants of that planet, it will say, "You know I can't do that, Dave." Its work will allow us to focus on more important things like having sex on other planets and making cabernets so good they leave you speechless. God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ”Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’ --Ann Coulter, Fox-TV: Hannity & Colmes, 20 Jun 01 Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! ---------------------------------------
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nator Member (Idle past 2160 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: *sigh*
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mansouryar Inactive Member |
schrafinator,
Why Einstein? Don't you think the term "next Mary Curie" is better?
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Omnivorous Member Posts: 3973 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
mansouryar writes: Why Einstein? Don't you think the term "next Mary Curie" is better? The next Mary (sic) Curie? Is that what Einstein was? God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ”Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’ --Ann Coulter, Fox-TV: Hannity & Colmes, 20 Jun 01 Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! ---------------------------------------
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CK Member (Idle past 4118 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
Wasn't Irne Joliot-Curie the next Marie Curie?
|
|
|
Do Nothing Button
Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved
Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024