Question:
Do you believe that Albert Einstein is the actually inventor of?
anonymous
2010-07-12 12:27:45 UTC
Do you believe that Albert Einstein is the actually inventor for all his work?
I studding Albert Einstein in my Greek school and later on and I fin it very difficult to believe in many thinks as Americans clamed to be. Einstein as fare I can say he read the since of the Greek philosophers , and practically he copy all of the Greeks sinters work . America books are not binging from foundation on many subject . Greeks, are the owners of splitting the atom ,electricity, light bulbs, ,measuring the moon, in clouting astrology name of the stars solar energy ,biological weapons, flame throwers and a million other things that today every one using them . I do not pout down by any means that the Einstein down he is the grater’s mathematician by fare , but thus clamed and he try to get credits is not trough, the Germans do not believe the Albert Einstein. and in fact they down graded him . And he could make a living to feat his family and his daughter, give my you opinion, thank you
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OperaBed
2010-07-12 13:02:03 UTC
I don't think he is the inventor of SR or GR, but he certainly was the first person to put all the mathematics, physics, and philosophy together that had been developing over the centuries into a consistent, logical, and general correct way. PERIOD...he knows what he was doing.
hello
2010-07-12 19:47:17 UTC
Einstein certainly was the originator of the solutions to many problems that were unsolved and very challenging at the turn of the last century. Those solutions showed us how the world really works and led to (along with others) a huge technological leap that is the foundation of our modern world. The work of the greeks and arabs was very important also for its time, but it does not compare to the advances of scientists like Newton and Einstein in explaining why the universe works the way it does. There was very little science in those greek times and science ideas have to be tested by experiment to see if they are correct. They did not have the equipment to do those tests and so they came up with a lot of wrong answers. I would not say that the greeks were the owners of splitting the atom or electricity or light bulbs or solar energy. These are owned by many scientists who performed experiments and asked questions and came up with answers that they then tested until they or others like Einstein, came up with a theory that explained the results. That is more a modern scientific approach, not the greek approach, although they did as best they could with the equipment they had at the time.
Drostie
2010-07-12 19:55:21 UTC
Einstein's Nobel prize was for proving that light comes in little lumps, by explaining the photoelectric effect with those lumps.



His "minor" works include developing a modification of Newton's mechanics to deal with the problem that everyone sees light moving at the same speed c, called the theory of relativity, a work on the connection between molecular motion and diffusion which let us finally calculate Avogadro's number, thus proving that atoms exist, and a totally new explanation of gravity which includes the fact that it affects light.



The Greek philosopher named Democritus had a couple of ideas which survive to the present day, but we don't have any works written by him -- his arguments for atoms are highly philosophical in nature, whereas Einstein's was experimental: "here is how you measure Avogadro's number; it will be somewhere less than infinity." We only know about Democritus' ideas from criticisms of them in Aristotle's work, and this is the closest that the Greek world comes to any of Einstein's big ideas.



It... would be difficult, to say the least, to somehow fit all of Einstein's work into Ancient Greece. There is a huge cultural gap: Einstein lives in a world where people are measuring the speed of light, discovering that light can kick off electrons from certain metals (and that the energy of the kicked-off electrons is independent of the intensity of the light). Greek ideas like the four elements were based on a systematic associative confusion -- "wood is solid but can burn" confused with "wet things tend to be cold" -- but modern science is based on a systematic investigative criticism. It's very hard to phrase the modern ideas in a way which an ancient Greek would understand, I think.



Which is not to say that their writings didn't kick off the Renaissance or anything of that nature -- Greeks are ultimately the proud originators of systematic Western investigation. But to say that they anticipated Einstein is, um, crazy.
EngElgendy
2010-07-12 19:49:20 UTC
science are Cumulative , so that scientists sure copy all the old researches then they make modifies on it , so that is an ordinary thing that Einstein did that , that doesn't mean that he is a copier , no , he is really a huge scientist



every thing was invented , being invented or will be invented will be based on old things
M Al-Qadasi
2010-07-12 19:58:05 UTC
I believe in that, why not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is a genius, so do not think that he was thinking that way we lay people do.


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