Rethinking…Is There a Next Einstein?

[arkain101]

Just as an additive reading.. Althought many choose not to read some of the works in the bible, there is an interesting read in there that I found. I didnt know it was in there untill recently. I was compelled to link this here for some reason when I read through part of doctor D's original post. I kept seeing Ecclesiastes. So its just a cool read, and one might enjoy.

BibleGateway.com - Passage*Lookup: Ecclesiastes 1 ;

[tierradelfuego]

Originally Posted by HIENVN

Is There a Next Einstein?

Yes, assuming that humans survive on Earth long enough, there will be another person in the field of physics that attains the influence of Einstein, though one cannot predict when this might happen.

Originally Posted by HIENVN

He worried that if he neither produced a theory nor showed that one was impossible, perhaps no one ever would.

His remark shows either an incredible assumption that he had enough empirical observations about reality to formulate said theory or an incredible disdain for the value of future empirical observations and the ability of someone to employ those future empirical observations to formulate said theory. (Note that I am not implying that said theory shall be formulated.)

Originally Posted by HIENVN

Do you think his remark true?

Perhaps it is true, and perhaps it is false. Perhaps no one will ever formulate said theory because the composite elements of said theory, that is, the component theories, are themselves not capable of combination, or are not completely valid representations of reality.