Are there people today as clever as Einstein?

[Anonymous]

Are there people today as clever as Einstein?

[MrOracle]

Sure there are, but they don't necessarily work in physics. Or they do, but they are working in areas like advanced processor design. But there are many different areas where we have made huge breakthroughs in technology or medicine or whatever, and while most of them aren't famous to the general public, they are well known among their peers.

As far as Einstein, and many other high geniuses, many of them are similar to autistics, in that they may lack personal or social skills, and perhaps even common sense or street smarts, because they just don't spend any time or effort to develop those areas of their lives. They are often "specialized geniuses".

Geniuses who are more general are even more rare, but they exist too. Take Kelly Johnson of Lockheed - he lead the development of a half-dozen breakthrough aircraft designs - aircraft that did what was formerly considered impossible. The P38 twin-hull fighter, the U2 spy plane, and the ultra high-flying, ultra fast SR71 spy plane, are just a few examples. But he also ran the company and lobbied Congress and had all of the social and personal skills.

[genericname85]

probably. but people like einstein are very rarely famous during their lifetime. mostly cause it takes that long for paradigm changing scientific findings to gain traction society. i would say today who's closest to Einstein is Neil deGrasse Tyson. cause big brain science and fame don't often overlap.

[dustybiker]

I heard Einstein ripped off other people around him. Some say that is yet another form of intelligence… Also heard a lot of the quotes attributed to him he didn’t say.

[LilyByte]

ye defenitly i mean look at all the cool tech. inventions thats come out in the past 30 years its completely changed how we live our lives

[Asker]

Einstein teories in the early 20th century is still accepted.

That is not how you call him so smart?

[Asker]

Technology started being developed much faster in late 18th century with industrial revolution. We came where we are in 250 years. Not in 30 years.

[LilyByte]

well yeah technology has ben being invented for longer than 30 years but its changed jurasticlly in the past 30 yeas compared to the change from the 18 hundreds and the mid 19 hundreds

and for enstine smartness i guess there is no defnite aswsner to satying how one is smarter sense someone could be really smart at somthing but also dumb at another thing

[Asker]

19th century is full of technological inventions.

[LilyByte]

yes we had lots of inactivation like the industrial revolution which made making goods way easier like rn we are currently in another boom of inactivation like the industrial revolution but this time with internet

[Asker]

On internet, it says that Internet History goes as far as late 50s :D

[LilyByte]

ye but at that time it was only used by a few universities and the government the general population had no interaction with it

[DeadlyCreed]

Dude what’s the point of asking opinions if ou just go in with a rock solid mindset?

[WhitneySnow]

Einstein wasn’t clever. He was book smart. There’s a difference.

[Asker]

Einstein teories in the early 20th century is still accepted.

That is not how you call him so smart?

[DeadlyCreed]

He said he’s smart, not clever, in many of his speeches he proved himself to have a slow wit, be a lousy orator, and be inarticulate in his point of view of the Atomic Theory, and in the end, lost to Bohr

[MCheetah]

Yes, but they're ignored because society values the stupid, and pretty much always has.

[DeadlyCreed]

Einstein thought the nuke was impossible
I wish he was right

[Asker]

I never heard of this

[DeadlyCreed]

This was to be fair before the discovery of the neutron so he did have solid reasoning for the time

[Asker]

I think possibility of an atomic bomb had been known in 1930s.

[DeadlyCreed]

Yes but many renowned scientists thought nuclear energy was either impossible to harness, or so small it didn’t matter, because after all, one atom splitting only gives the amount of energy to lift a GRAIN OF SAND ONE MILLIMETER, but after the discovery of a third subatomic particle, the neutron, someone, whose name escapes me, had the idea that if an atom with 2 neutrons was fired at by a neutron, it would send the two that make it up at 2 more of said atom, getting exponentially larger until…💥

[DeadlyCreed]

Veritasium did a video on it I think, just look it up

[SpaceGalaxy]

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