Jitterbug;190619 Wrote: > Actually, it took some several years for Einstein's (1905) ideas to be > accepted within the physics world, largely because he was an unknown. > His fame came 14 to 15 years later when solar eclipse gave scientists > an opprtunity to test his theory of general relativity.
That isn't very long, and it's also not true. I don't have time now to detail the history, but you can look it up for yourself. Eddington's measurement made Einstein even more famous than he already was to the public, but by then he was already more or less maximally well known among physicists. Just look how long it took after 1905 before he was offered a position on the faculty of a university, or until the first papers based on his ideas appeared. That's the appropriate measure for how quickly an idea gets accepted within the scientific community. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33547 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
