10 Greatest Figures in the History of the World - Your Picks?

[Kasz216]

tombi123 said:

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:
@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.

I'd forgotten that.

Fair enough, in which case Einstein would pretty much be the only scientist you could put on the list.

 

Now that I think about it now, I do remember a big deal being made that Einstein had a previous theory that would of ruined his credibility, but nobody listened to it ironically, and when his calculations proved way off, few people took notice.

 

MAYBE Newton as well... though i'm not so sure.

It might of been the 'cosmological constant' that he put into his equations because he believed the Universe was static and his equations predicted an expanding universe (before Hubble's discovery). 

Newton wrote three times more papers on Alchemy than he did on Maths and Physics combined. 

Although his use of Maths to describe the Universe was considered almost blasphemy by the academics at the time. 

Stuff that far away i'm hesitant to judge on.

I mean hell, few people even know that Darwin's theories on evolution had people who pretty much had concluded the same thing but just didn't publish it as scientific per say.

The problem with scientific revolutions is... often times there are a lot of people who agree with the person who made the discvoery... it's just they're younger... and there works often go unpublished or ignored... then it seems like there is a "wave" where everyone accepts the theory and suddenly a burst of new scientific inquiry... when in reality it's those who were ostracizied by the scientific community getting their time to shine as the older people are pushed aside their theories defunct.

Science as an orginization sadly doesn't work as scientifically as people would think.