who is today's Albert Einstein

McCready00
McCready00 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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    Hawking.
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    McCready00 wrote:
    so, who do you think is today's most important physician .. or astrophysician.


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    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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  • McCready00
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    Talking of Hawking, saw this picture ? :

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/wip-week26/images/primary/hawking-weightless.jpg
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  • Toolgarden
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    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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  • Pauk
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    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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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots 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.
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    ucsbledbetter wrote:
    Ed Vedder

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    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
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  • godpt3
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    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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  • BinFrog
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    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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  • McCready00
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    Toolgarden wrote:
    I think you mean "physicist...or astrophysicist."

    you are right.. thanks
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