Who was Einstein, (was he infallible), and what were his greatest discoveries and worst blunders..............

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein

Answer 1

Einstein was a brilliant German physicist. He was a human, he was not infallible, and he was wrong about things. His revamping of Newton's equations of physics were an improvement, but alas they were not the end all be all solution. I read something interesting in a book, arguing the Einstein's equations aren't wrong even though they give incorrect answers in extreme circumstances. The reason for this is because Einstein found a flaw in a previous way of doing things (Newton's) and through reasoning and logic corrected them to get a right answer subject to his constraints. Unfortunately for him, his solution didn't pan out when you take into account quantum mechanics. Still, if you are not doing quantum mechanics Einstein's equations work fine, and if you are dealing with small objects with small masses (relatively, like typical Earth sized objects) then even Newton's equations are fine and acceptable.

I don't know if you'd call it a blunder, but he was working on a theory to unify gravity and magnetism until his death, which he never completed and that idea has since been discredited by other research.

Answer 2

Old Albert was something else his scientific work was perfect mostly because he was so far ahead of his time that they are only now beginning to unravel his theories , Perhaps when they understand them they can tell if they are brilliant or not ,E=Mc2 is his greatest work ,The study of photoelectric effect has been proved to be a great help to the scientific world , and the university he established has produced many brilliant minds, His blunders have been his family life which was catastrophic

Answer 3

Just to supplement the other answers: Einstein himself said that the greatest blunder of his career was adding the so-called "cosmological constant" to the field equations of his theory of general relativity.

Answer 4

this isnt an answer to your question, but i have the same birthday as einstein. March 14.

Answer 5

i caught me girlfriend making out with an inflatable einstein