Exactly. It takes more than intelligence to do what Einstein did. Education, ambition, opportunity, a semblance of social freedom, etc... If you’re born in the wrong country, or the wrong social class, or for various reasons lack motivation to use your gifts... then it doesn’t matter how smart you are.
I’d argue there have been people smarter than Einstein, but simply never existed under the right set of circumstances. A lot of luck involved, sadly. Too much.
In spades for Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Fourier, Tesla, etc. Sure, they were all reasonably bright, but if they had been born to a life that made them a subsistence farmer with no connections to academia and/or finance...
Part of his nurturing was the time his mother spent helping him so he can go back to regular school (if I remember correctly). People don't spend enough time with their children to even think about doing this. Let alone all those lost genius children in impoverished countries.
I mean Einstein was actively against quantum physics, so you shouldn't give him too much credits. I mean, after all quantum physics has lead to some extraordinary discoveries and some amazing inventions. (Also Niels Bohr won)
This is kinda pedantic. My point wasn’t about Einstein. It’s about how many minds like his may have been lost to circumstance. Replace Einstein with your preferred genius, and the actual point I’m making still holds true.
Some do, but get silenced and persecuted for various political, religious, and other reasons.
I believe what happened to Galileo happens, sometimes secretly and other times publicly, every day to people who would've become great thinkers and scientists if only they were given some of their basic rights like freedom of speech and the right to think freely without being judged and/or harmed for stepping outside the herd and thinking for themselves.
That's only because he ran out of material in school, so it is a good argument. It's not like he would have just mastered calculus at 14 on his own without ever being introduced to math.
I mean, it was, but he was from a wealthy family and was able to attend a good school. Another problem is, just because we find another person who is that smart, there's no reason to expect them to go into physics over something that makes money like programming, investment banking, etc.
Also, the problems we struggle with today even Einstein couldn't solve.
From a young age the community around him was educated individuals (family and family friends). His family was secular and instilled value in education over religion as they were non-observant/secular Jews. He also had his own personal tutor outside of class.
My great aunt was fortunate to meet Albert Einstein on multiple occasions as her older sister was friends with him. (Her family were German, educated, non-observant Jews, financially secure). He would come over to their family’s house for dinners. My great aunt (who died at 99 b. 1907) didn’t recall much about him but very vividly remembered him using his napkin at the table as paper and writing ideas/equations/notes on it throughout meals.
That would only have an effect if there was some statistical bias towards the aborted to be more likely to achieve Einstein's success than the unaborted. Considering the two biggest parts of Einstein's success were his upbringing in a wealthy educated family and his intelligence. Since abortion biases towards lower income communities, that means they would have grown up in environments that would make them less likely to achieve Einstein's success. So technically, more abortions would bias the odds more in favor of finding a potential Einstein towards more likely than less.
Which is a terrible thing obviously, because that's how eugenics works.
Don't try to argue a moral framework as a practical framework just because the issue is important to you. It weakens your position.
Not really unless you can correlate total births with abortion rate. For example, a person who is 17 having an abortion might have kids later in life when they can afford it, while a person who doesn't might never be able to get out of the poverty hole caused by a teenage pregnancy and never be able to afford another child. There's also the whole carrying capacity problem. If you outlawed abortions today and for some reason people magically decided to not have them illegally, then eventually any perturbations to the population growth rate would fall back to the current rate. An example of one of the processes responsible for this would be that it is possible to have 2 abortions over the course of 6 months but not two full-term pregnancies. Taking into account that the number of abortions is not equal to the number of potential babies just from chronology, you also have an issue where not every abortion would have even been a viable full-term pregnancy, since the miscarriage rate in the first 5 weeks is about 20%, abortions are more likely to affect pregnancies that would have miscarried.
Their level of intelligence doesn’t matter. Einstein was the one who proposed the theory of relativity and predicted black holes existence, I’m sure this long awaited image of something he devoted a large portion of his life working on would mean a lot more to him than someone who just so happened to be smart
Thats the thing about knowledge and science isn't it, that answers spawn an explosion of brand new questions and problems? Ipso facto, Einstein indeed holds claim. It all started with Einstein's field equations, therefore Schwarzschild not-so-simply put a name to a face in his solving of that equation, more specifically the Schwarzschild Radius as his answer is so named. In following, Expert physicists have continued this research, progressively advancing technology alongside theory, bringing us to this exact moment in which we're looking at the very first image ever of a black hole. Needless to say, I think Einstein would be pretty fucking proud of such an achievement as this, born from a lifetime of research and study.
I didn’t “claim” anything, I said something which was partially right. At least I didn’t throw a wiki page a the person who I was originally expressing my views with, the original comment I made wasn’t abt who discovered what bla bla bla, I was simply talking abt how Einstein’s boots couldn’t be filled by someone who was just as smart as him as he devoted his life to scientific theories which were linked to black holes
bro you realize you're on reddit, where people will argue over semantics that don't actually matter. Yeah Schwarzschild may have actually proposed it, but guess who's equations were used to figure it out. Einstein did 95% of the work
Einstein wasn’t just intelligent, I heard there was a part of his brain that was larger than normal and that was why he could perceive such things. like how he came up with the speed of light, he envisioned himself basically riding on a beam of light flying through space
Edit: he was missing a wrinkle in his brain so some lobe was larger, also more neurons than normal. PS you’re all a bunch of negative nancies. We need more positive patties around here
After reading a few biography’s written of him I believe the general consensus that his life long passion playing of the violin while he thought about his work played a part in developing/over developing one of the lobe. Of course it wasn’t confirmed to be that reason but that’s what they all seems to think. Dude also apparently fucked like a champ as I understand it, and had some pretty fashionable Sandals.
Every professor I ever had in college required me to use at least Wikipedia as a source. It's finally reliable because there's more people contributing and self correcting versus some random guy on the internet.
The problem with wikipedia is not bias. It's the fact that anyone can edit it. Wikipedia articles have been edited with false information in the past. Due to this, there is no one being held accountable for the information since it's not by a publisher and the authors aren't always listed. Hence, it's a source you can't use.
...Yes but also no. Try to edit any random page, it'll get corrected back in the same day usually within minutes/hours. And that's for lesser known pages - for more famous stuff they are protected and can only edit if you're a recognizable contributor. So no, that's also more ignorant stuff that teachers say.
"It is inappropriate to judge an animal by focusing on a skill which the creature does not possess. A fish is specialized to swim superbly, and its ability to climb a tree is non-existent or rudimentary" - Anon
Edit: guess Einstein didn't say that, but this doesn't stop it from being true.
Science has become so compartmentalised and specialised that you won't really get people like Einstein anymore. You'll get broadly educated influencers and you'll get experts in extremely specific fields.
That's not the point they want stephen hawking to see it because he was the one who theorized about hawking radiation you could just imagine how happy he will be to see how close we are to actualy knowing what blackholes truly look like
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If only Einstein was here to see this