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who is today's Albert Einstein

McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
so, who do you think is today's most important physicist...or astrophysicist.
-"it's times like these you have to ask yourself, "what would mike mccready do"
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  • orig_long redorig_long red Posts: 2,029
    Ernie Hudson
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  • ucsbledbetterucsbledbetter Posts: 173
    Ed Vedder

    did you see that lab coat he was sportin?
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    Hawking.
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  • spongersponger Posts: 3,159
    billy bob thornton in armageddon.
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  • beebalmdancerbeebalmdancer Posts: 72
    McCready00 wrote:
    so, who do you think is today's most important physician .. or astrophysician.


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    long red wrote:
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    BinFrog wrote:
    Hawking.

    Its funny i was having a conversation the other day with a friend saing that hawking is like our generations Einstein.
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  • McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
    Talking of Hawking, saw this picture ? :

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/wip-week26/images/primary/hawking-weightless.jpg
    -"it's times like these you have to ask yourself, "what would mike mccready do"
  • ToolgardenToolgarden Posts: 88
    McCready00 wrote:
    so, who do you think is today's most important physician .. or astrophysician.

    I think you mean "physicist...or astrophysicist."
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  • NevermindNevermind Posts: 1,006
    A basement full of scientists puffing on chronic dipped in mycin potassium cyanide and liquid bubonic.
  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    Definitely Hawking. Both looking for unity in the universe. Both great minds. Both are the only really famous physicists of the last century. It can't be anyone but Hawking really...
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I don't know if there's a suitable comparison. Einstein was a humanist and all-round intellectual in many ways. He was adept in philosophising science and its implications for us as feeling beings. I don't know if Hawking, however brilliant he is, quite has that air of Everyman about him.

    Outside of physics and astrophysics, a zoologist such as Dawkins tries very hard to push his militant atheism, and he receives some plaudits for it. However, he lacks that physics prof's tolerance of uncertainty, and if you lack tolerance you lack that key quality Einstein had.
  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    This dude?
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  • EddiEEddiE Posts: 125
    ucsbledbetter wrote:
    Ed Vedder

    did you see that lab coat he was sportin?

    Lab coat captain? :D
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  • Lukin66Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    fowls wrote:
    Definitely Hawking. Both looking for unity in the universe. Both great minds. Both are the only really famous physicists of the last century. It can't be anyone but Hawking really...
    +1
    I heard Hawking speak when he was here in Seattle last year, and the guy is amazing. I say Hawking ftw
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    what alot of folks don't realize is that Einstein was nothing more than a gifted amateur when it came to physics. Beyond being a brilliant thinker, he had no formal training in that regard. Hell, he was just a clerk in a Swiss patent office. After relativity, he spent the rest of his days working on the "theory of everything." Without success. And many of his achievements were quickly forgotten and overlooked when "nuclear physics" came of age in the 1930s and 1940s.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    godpt3 wrote:
    what alot of folks don't realize is that Einstein was nothing more than a gifted amateur when it came to physics. Beyond being a brilliant thinker, he had no formal training in that regard. Hell, he was just a clerk in a Swiss patent office. After relativity, he spent the rest of his days working on the "theory of everything." Without success. And many of his achievements were quickly forgotten and overlooked when "nuclear physics" came of age in the 1930s and 1940s.


    The 'theory of everything" is still a major driving force in the scientific community. String Theory ring a bell?
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  • McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
    Toolgarden wrote:
    I think you mean "physicist...or astrophysicist."

    you are right.. thanks
    -"it's times like these you have to ask yourself, "what would mike mccready do"
  • coachchriscoachchris Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 749
    My love growing up Winnie Cooper AKA: Danika McKellar. K maybe not the Einstein of today but she is incredibly brilliant and still holds a soft spot in my heart ;)
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    sponger wrote:
    billy bob thornton in armageddon.

    :) great.
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    Ron Jeremy? Well, he's got the moustache. And he knows that energy equals mass ...
  • scot88scot88 Posts: 217
    godpt3 wrote:
    what alot of folks don't realize is that Einstein was nothing more than a gifted amateur when it came to physics. Beyond being a brilliant thinker, he had no formal training in that regard. Hell, he was just a clerk in a Swiss patent office. After relativity, he spent the rest of his days working on the "theory of everything." Without success. And many of his achievements were quickly forgotten and overlooked when "nuclear physics" came of age in the 1930s and 1940s.

    Uh, he did work in a patent office, but he also had a doctorate in physics (not exactly an amateur.)
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    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    George Bush

    What, so Albert Einstein was retarded?
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    Gotta be Frink!

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  • Gossard_Is_GodGossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    this has to be the single greatest response to a question in the history of mankind



    "Tell 'em about the twinkie"

    what about the twinkie?


    id say Harold Ramis
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  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    BinFrog wrote:
    The 'theory of everything" is still a major driving force in the scientific community. String Theory ring a bell?
    Indeed, but it depends on which way you look at it. Einstein worked on the theory without much success at all, which a lot of people see as tragic considering how early the great discoveries came in his career. A lot of documentaries on Einstein's life try and make him out to be obsessed with unifying science and religion by looking for the theory of everything, which I don't think is quite fair but is one way to dramatise it I guess.
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