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Anyone excited about tomorrow's announcement concerning LIGO's findings???
This is a corroboration of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity that had to wait for the technology to show it. Einstein's
G.R. still on point....
It's a shame he never knew just how correct he really was.
Hard to imagine a single human with a greater impact on Science.
As someone who has finished physics, I find Einstein's contribution to be somewhat overrated. If I was to pick the greatest physicist of all time, I would settle with.... Max Planck or Richard Feynmann.
Einstein laid the groundwork for all 4 of the major thrusts of physics for the twentieth century. And he published all four papers laying this groundwork in a single year. Just the scope of his discoveries is enough to rank him first among equals...
He did not lay the groundwork for them all. What about quantum mechanics?
I'm not a physicist, but I've seen and heard several times from purported experts that his 1905 papers laid the groundwork for them and this certainly included quantum theory. To quote Wikipedia, Einstein's theories for the photoelectric effect extended the quantum theory which Max Planck had developed in his successful explanation of black body radiation. So, even if not quite foundational, it certainly help refine and lead the way.
Einstein in fact distrusted Quantum Mechanics so much he remarked to Planck (if I can remember correctly) 'God does not play dice with the universe.' Even today physicists struggle to link relativity and quantum mechanics.
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