Rath on 22 January 2010
@Kasz. Einsteins discoveries were not inevitable, well some of them were but one wasn't. The General Theory of Relativity was so completely out of left field that I don't see any reason why it would have been discovered even now.
There was no slow march of progress towards it then a moment of brilliance at the end.
There have been few discoveries like it in any field.
