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Many people are already doing this. They're known as theoretical physicists. If you want to join their efforts, you should major in physics in college.

2007-07-08 05:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 0 0

Einstein made amazing progress up to a point; then he hit a brick wall. Maybe he had overlooked a false assumption or fallacy in his reasoning.

He got where he did by challenging what everyone ahead of him thought they knew. If you want to go beyond Einstein, I suggest you start by understanding his reasoning until it becomes intuitively obvious; then go back to the beginning and doubt every step. Look for fallacies which prevented him from going farther than he did. Challenge his "proof" that the universe is finite. Challenge his tacit assumption that the speed and range of gravity are infinite. Take a fresh look at whether the existence of an ether is irrelevant. Doubt everything and challenge everything.

2007-07-08 15:23:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Einstein didn't arrive at his theories by magic; he considered experimental evidence, started from some simple axioms indicated by the experiments, and derived logical consequences of these. It's not as if, when he died, a mystical font of diving knowledge disappeared. There's no reason why you couldn't do the same as Einstein did. Just get a Ph. D. in physics.

2007-07-08 13:23:24 · answer #3 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 0 0

The last thing that Einstein was working on before he died was in developing a theory to relate gravitation to electricity/magnetism. He didn't succeed, and I don't think anyone's made any progress on it since then.

2007-07-08 13:00:10 · answer #4 · answered by Imperial 2 · 0 0

Last thing he was working on was a Unified Field Theory... some people say what he was working on made no sense at all but if you were able to conclude his work you'd be awarded an honoris causa PhD, so good luck!

2007-07-08 14:43:11 · answer #5 · answered by jsos88 2 · 0 0

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