RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 17, 2015 at 6:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2015 at 6:48 am by Alex K.)
Well said
This November, General Relativity has its 100th anniversary. Einstein started working on it a decade earlier. The maths part got started when he asked mathematician friends how they think one might realize certain things, and they gave him a crash course in Riemannian Geometry. And just months before the final publication, he threw out everything because he was unsure about a problem (the hole problem of diffeomorphism invariant theories), and tried a different approach to the field equations, only to convince himself that the original approach was ok all along. David Hilbert did the same work in parallel from a more mathematical perspective. The lone genius revelation story is Hollywood science.
(March 17, 2015 at 5:45 am)Smaug Wrote: [...] That's what I'm trying to point out, actually. All those naive stories about "genious revelations" (such as about Newton, Einstein, Mendeleev et al) are in fact modern myths and completely fail to tell the full story.
This November, General Relativity has its 100th anniversary. Einstein started working on it a decade earlier. The maths part got started when he asked mathematician friends how they think one might realize certain things, and they gave him a crash course in Riemannian Geometry. And just months before the final publication, he threw out everything because he was unsure about a problem (the hole problem of diffeomorphism invariant theories), and tried a different approach to the field equations, only to convince himself that the original approach was ok all along. David Hilbert did the same work in parallel from a more mathematical perspective. The lone genius revelation story is Hollywood science.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
