WHY DO PEOPLE LOVE EINSTEIN?

[Pentcho Valev]

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Pentcho Valev

[Bio-Mage]

If people can worship cows, they can love einstein...

[Waspie_Dwarf]

I think the more pertinent question is, why does Pentcho Valev hate Einstein?

[Pax Unum]

I think the more pertinent question is, why does Pentcho Valev hate Einstein?

good Question...

[Celumnaz]

most people don't even understand Einstein, although he did bring the topic "down to earth" so more people could understand things. That helped.

The #1 Reason:

He's the image of the quintessential "Mad Scientist" and he was a "goodguy". The hair, the face... it's just endearing to the common person, this image of genius.

IMO... it's the looks that made people like him, on top of the genius. He should have trademarked his bust lol.

[aquatus1]

What's important to note, I think, is that simply because people like Einstein doesn't mean that people worship him, or that people regard him as infallible. He is extremely credible, of course, and he earned his credibility fair and square, so trying to pretend that he isn't just isn't going to work. If anyone wishes to disprove his theories, they will have to do it the same way all scientist have to do it, and that is by presenting a better theory with more support and explanatory power. Simply saying that he is wrong and that all his followers are zombies and cultists isn't going to do it.

And, for the record, I think the reason Einstein is so popular is because he was a genuinely nice guy, not the pompous and distant scientific figure that most scientists of his time were. My personal favorite quote from him?

Reporter: "Mr. Einstein, can you tell us what the speed of light is?"

Einstein: "I don't know."

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Well said aquatus1

Einstein is so well loved because he represents the good side of mankind (the truth is, that like all of us he had his faults).

He represents the intellectual, enquiring mind, but also the caring pacifistic side of our nature. This is a man, who through fear of the Nazi's getting building it first, drew the US President's attention to the possibility of nuclear weapons and then dedicated a large part of his life to nuclear dis-armourment.

He was a genius who thought in four dimensions when others only thought in three, yet was a simple man who frequently forgot where he had left his pay cheque.

He has been called Uncle Albert because he came across like a favourite, eccentric Uncle.

Will his theories fall one day? Maybe. Just as Einstein replaced Newton someone else may replace Einstein. Will he ever stop being regarded as a genius? No! Does history think any less of Newton? He is still regarded as one of the great geniuses of all time. Einstein will be regarded in the same way. Despite Pentcho Valev's intense (and some what weird) hatred of Einstein and relativity, the image of Uncle Albert, genius, will remain with us for as long as our civilisation survives.

[GreyWeather]

Einstien was a genious, but he was still wrong on certain subjects. just like Hippocrates was in his thinking of how to cure illness. same with galen and his ideas. From what I learned from the past, you shouldn't dwell on someones idea's to long, as there are chances they'll be very wrong.

[aquatus1]

Einstien was a genious, but he was still wrong on certain subjects. just like Hippocrates was in his thinking of how to cure illness. same with galen and his ideas. From what I learned from the past, you shouldn't dwell on someones idea's to long, as there are chances they'll be very wrong.

Ah...well, I'll stick with the ideas that have been proven right, until such time as they are proven wrong. I won't abandon a good idea just because I feel some sort of timer went off, and now the idea is "very wrong".

[GreyWeather]

Ah...well, I'll stick with the ideas that have been proven right, until such time as they are proven wrong. I won't abandon a good idea just because I feel some sort of timer went off, and now the idea is "very wrong".

no no, I mean, people shouldn't dwell on a single idea, without trying to improve on it.

[L815]

Just remember, Einstein had his wife do all the math.

[Ned Tunacao]

A rough quote from him.

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I assure you mine are still greater."

[Zking]

ZV00 Posted Today, 07:14 PM

Just remember, Einstein had his wife do all the math.

Now, where did you hear this, because I have never heard of that, and by the way which Wife are you talking about? Because Einstein had two wives. His first wife was often overshadowed by his accomplishments, so I dont think she would be the one to do all thw work, and his second wife (if I remember correctly) was not a scientist. Now I could be wrong but I dont ever remember hearing Einstein had his wife do all of the work. Could you please show me where this is stated so I will know for future reference. So if it is not too much of a bother please post some links showing this.

And Pentcho, people like Einstein because, like most other people have said, he's like that quirky uncle we all love, besides why do you hate him, because he achieved greater goals than you have, is more intelligent than you, his theories have yet to be disproven by you or anyone else, why do you hate him?

[Cebrakon]

Einstein is popular because his theory of special relativity is the only theory of the 20th Century that has a chance of being right. All later theories (including General Relativity) have embedded logical impossibilities, such as singularity, infinity, paradox, and reductio ad absurdem. Special relativity seems paradoxical until one realizes that the space and time we perceive are illusions, just like the sense that the universe is at rest in the middle of the universe. Kurt Godel proved that any logical system which has logical impossibilities in it can be used to prove anything, such as 1=2. This is the root of quantum weirdness.

Whatever is logically impossible is also physically impossible! It doesn't matter if it gives good numbers. It also allows crackpot ideas, such as multiple universes, and the smearing of a particle out into all the tracks it could be following. This crackpot theory requires an observer to put things right, and "collapse the possible solutions." Balderdash. Stuff and nonsense.

"I think, my Kepler, we will laugh at the multitude." -- Galileo, 1610

~~~~Cebrakon

[Waspie_Dwarf]

Whose logic? Never confuse what seems to defy logic with what actually is impossible.

To state these theories are logically impossible even though the maths is good is to try to define the universe only in terms of human experience. Human experience is small and limited. The wonders of the universe are vast.

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespear

[Doom]

Einstein was a good guy, but his theory is not perfect.

Thats good in the sense future theorists can discover a more complete theory, but bad in the sense that technology under an incorrect failed of theory, will cause the technology to fail.

But Einstein did propose many theories and some are widely accepted and others are not.

I thank Einstein for waking up the scientific community, but we now need a modern version of Einstein.