Okay, hear me out. As I understand it, Einstein was some kind of supergenius who came to a lot of conclusions. Here's the weird conclusion I came up with: at what point was there some kind of connection to realize that there's a nuclear force, rather than solid objects? Where'd we come up with all of these ideas that are so different from common and ordinarily observational perception? Was Einstein touched by the will of the universe, and able to draw upon that power to lead us to the truth, and the staggering power that that truth contains?
2006-11-22 07:27:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, not a prophet. Just a man with an uncommon understanding of physics, and the ability to think differently about problems that had stumped other people.
2006-11-22 07:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do we forget the other of us and among us but that which resides within us? None is any different. We remember, we forget; now eagle, now earthworm. Einstein was no more or less born to a given time, of a given time, for a given time; and of that kind, a well-appointed equipage. But of any times comes invention no less random than before or will come after, without which manifesting all of these we suppose a world old or modern does not sally forward. 'More plan than mystery when the mind is given something to do, which device reciprocates more mystery than plan: if there were genius, then this would be its device. The world consciousness has its seasons; and as with anything living, has its need and proclamation to convey the electric. Einstein was not alone. We are not alone. We develop and have our initiatives, as well our follies, and there again we listen and are shown. As to a Gnostic, a mystic, a prophet, or something more, Einstein will have chosen the "or something more" every time, in particular have said he is but a man, which in itself should be esteemed meritorious; and his, the disinterested works. Nothing quite draws light as disinterest does. It's all poetry.
2016-05-22 17:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Einstein did not believe in a Personal God, by the way, either. He used God in a poetic, royal sense, but was an atheist.
Cosmology and quantum physics is not about truth through revelation -- that's what religion is. It's about truth through math; if you can make the math fit the universe, you can predict it. All of his theories were based on internal mathematical consistency, even when he had to "judge" the numbers to make it work -- such as the so-called Cosmological Constant. However, all his work was based at a minimum on reason through observable evidence, modeled using math.
He was a genius, a poet, and a great scientist. Not a prophet.
2006-11-22 07:33:36 · answer #3 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Einstein described exactly how he came to the revelation of relativity.
When he was young, he had a very difficult time of geometry. So his uncle taught him to think of it as hunting. You look at the available clues and from that figure out where your prey is and what it must be. This idea empowered Einstein with a powerful virtual laboratory in his brain.
The idea that spawned -- well... ALL modern physics... was simple.
"What would it be like to ride on a beam of light?"
Einstein thought about it. And the end results were the specific and general theory of relativity.
Pity he got so much wrong. "god does not play dice." Boy was he wrong on that one. Still, without relativity, no one ever would have seen that not only are there dice, they're rolled where we can't see them... and they seem that they might be slightly loaded.
2006-11-22 07:32:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
All I think he was was a man capable of touching depths in his mind most of us cannot comprehend,after all most of us only use about 10% of our brains ability within our lifetime. And he also had such an insatiable curiosity for knowledge that at times in his life it made people think of him as distracted or anti social in some way. That insatiable search is actually shown by an idea that was written by a scientist attempting to disprove the theory of relativity,I say that because that attempt which I heard some mathematicians think was successful in disproving the theory of relativity(although my understanding is they are in the minority) was also written by Albert Einstein. In other words he couldn't leave well enough alone,he had to sit down and try to disprove his own theory after the scientific world had accepted it as fact, whether he succeeded is a matter of contention. The point is that he was simply such a seeker of knowledge that he couldn't be stopped.
AD
2006-11-22 07:40:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its him and that ****** Isaac Netwon that made me have to take hard frickin' classes like calculus and chemistry. So in my case, he's the devil.
2006-11-22 07:32:15 · answer #6 · answered by Ghurricane87 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes he was.
So is hawkings
at least these people did something for the world.
2006-11-22 07:38:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Einstein was GOD! LOL! or at least close!
2006-11-22 07:29:29 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he didn't have any miracles, he didn't carry a message from God!
2006-11-22 07:33:09 · answer #9 · answered by Not a happy bunny 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes...Iam.
2006-11-22 07:28:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋