40 years? 2 years?
2007-05-27 22:38:37 · 17 answers · asked by knuckleheadmcspazmatron 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The basis of his discovery of e=mc2 lies in Maxwell's work in electrodynamics. The e=mc2 stuff is not really that big a jump intellectually. Einstein won his nobel prize for something on the photo electric effect. But his greatest work was probably done on the subject of general relativity.
e=mc2 = not that great...
so probably very close thereafter.
2007-05-27 22:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by wrtj82 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Einstein did give an elegant wrap up of the theory, but the bulk has been developed by others. The essence of relativity - Lorentz transformations have been discovered by... well, by Larmor and Lorentz. The Minkowsky space - discovered by Minkowsky. A lot of prominent scientists have been working on the topic. Pointcare, for example. Probably someone else would have made that discovery 5-10 years later. If not sooner.
2007-05-27 22:59:38 · answer #2 · answered by Regal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem with your question, and the problem with the understanding of pivotal geniuses in general, is that you focus on the supposed accomplishment of the individual. E=MC2 may or may not but a law in all seriousness, there are a lot of uncertanties out there. The most important thing that Einstein... and others like him... have done is to make us view the universe with new eyes. Einstein contradicted himself even with some of his views of the universe, but that's not important to regarding him as a visionary because he was able to see thing in a perspective wholly his own, he was able to add detail to the way that even the gifted minds of his day saw as already complete.
2007-05-27 22:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by HaphazardJoy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much after Einstein did, actually. The theory of relativity is based on and expands on Lorentz equations; if it was not for Einstein, somebody else would have picked off and derived the mass-energy equation. It could have been as little as 5 years.
2007-05-27 22:50:01 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
E=MC2 is essentially still a theory. It seems to make sense to the scientists but at the end of the day we have not yet reached a level of technology that will enable us to test it.. and thyey certainly didn't have the technology in Einsteins days.
2007-05-27 22:47:34 · answer #5 · answered by bruvvamoff 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well very soon may be the same week.once einstein took over a lady for a patent just hours,so it was obvious that E-mc^2 would have been developed very soon
2007-05-27 22:49:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think anything has it's own time to be exposed .
And taht would be no difference about the discoveror or inventor of it
what important is the time of occurance of it
2007-05-27 22:51:30 · answer #7 · answered by hortoryman 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
may be it had been good if he didn't discover e=mc2 and neither anybody else until i have done my studies
2007-05-27 22:43:19 · answer #8 · answered by the dudgeon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
after 10 year i say
2007-05-28 01:01:34 · answer #9 · answered by Dhruvaditya s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Around the time man landed on moon !
2007-05-27 22:44:22 · answer #10 · answered by Sanjiv 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋