Modern day Albert Einstein?

Discussion in 'General Science & Technology' started by Steven Genieus, Apr 10, 2010.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. BigFairy Hi Im Big Fairy! Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    56
    Thanks for the updates.
     
  2. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  3. eupyongri Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    24
    Yes, they are all so big names and all that we learn at schools are the theories that they had published a hundred years or more. Few scientist names hit my brain: Stephen Hawking, James D. Watson and Francis Crick, Richard Feynman . . .
     
  4. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  5. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    33,264
    Richard Feynman

    Yep, he would be way up there for sure.
     
  6. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  7. Mickmeister Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    812
    We have had very profound scientists since Einstein, with as huge of breakthroughs, but they do not get the recognition that Einstein got for several reasons. Einstein's theories are the foundations of a great many areas of science. Einstein was, like Hawking and Kaku, able to convey his thoughts to the public which brought him fame. PR is a must for a scientist to gain fame, not just on their merits, and a lot of scientists are introverts with poor PR skills.

    How many people have heard of Gordon Gould or Alan Turing? Their discoveries have so profoundly affected society, yet their fame is limited basically to the scientific community. It's also a problem of the society we live in today. We are now in a "dummy down" society, where liberalism seems to think that everyone should be equal on all accounts, including intelligence. It's not cool to be an intellectual and smarter than most others. Another thing today is that with collaboration, single person discoveries is almost a thing of the past. Discoveries are now more often shared in groups.
     
  8. Mr MacGillivray Banned Banned

    Messages:
    527
    What about Frans de Waal who showed that politics aren't just an evil of the human species, but also lurk around in other primates.
     
  9. rpenner Fully Wired Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    4,833
    I like Hawking and Feynman as choices because the worst posters seem to often get both names wrong.
     
  10. Kernl Sandrs Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    645
    Michio Kaku

    Has nobody here heard of Michio Kaku?
     
  11. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    12,671
    Currently his company has the biggest marketcap overtaking it from Microsoft...

    Jobs changed the way people use their phones.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     
  12. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

    Messages:
    24,690
    Every I.T. professional knows about Turing. He's in our pantheon with Boole and Babbage. We have all heard of the Turing Test, the Turing Machine and the Turing Award, even if we can't all describe them.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

    .
    And where conservatism seems to think that science is blasphemy since it brought us the Theory of Evolution.
    Intelligence, scholarship and intellectualism were cool, from the launch of Sputnik which started the Space Race, to the end of "the Sixties," which actually ran from about 1963, when the Beatles took over American radio, to about 1975, when the U.S. finally withdrew from the Vietnamese Civil War and the Cold War was no longer on everyone's mind. During that time even our music was intellectual and scientific, as people attempted to tap their feet to Rush songs in 11/4 time. It was a glorious era when we science and math majors got dates.

    But then when it ended, the Religious Redneck Retard Revival gurgled up from the sewers and we've been fighting a losing battle against ignorance and superstition every since.

    The liberals can certainly be blamed for the misconception that in order for everyone to be equal they have to also be the same, a notion that culminated in the No Child Pushed Ahead act. Still, the liberals for the most part did and do accept and respect science, despite their occasional childish forays into such blatant silliness as feng shui and homeopathy. It's the conservatives who take the blame for the utter disrespect that science has been suffering for at least two decades.
     
  13. Pandaemoni Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,634
    Though he is another example of a great scientist who is not alive.
     
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

Share This Page