Comments on: The History Of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation

By: hammer

hammer — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:46:23 +0000

I like your site. It’s refreshing. Related to another post I just made that’s awaiting moderation, the iconization of Einstein likely stems from the general population needing a simple soundbite that captures the essence of a story without wanting to understand the background/work/history that goes with it. But academicians (not just scientist & mathematicians, but most) have been unable to thus far to find ways that simultaneously communicate simply & completely. Maybe the late Richard Feynman was one of the better ones, but you still need a trained & capable brain to appreciate (much less understand) what he’s trying to get across. Thanks for your various articles.

By: Brian Koberlein

Brian Koberlein — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:35:18 +0000

It really depends upon which theory you use. Given that general relativity works so well, most physicists think antimatter should attract just like regular matter. Some models proposed that antimatter would attract itself, but repel regular matter, and others propose that antimatter repels everything. Those last two aren’t popular, since they predict odd things about relativity we don’t observe. But we haven’t yet been able to experimentally confirm that antimatter acts like regular matter.

By: Odd Sam

Odd Sam — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:12:47 +0000

Greetings, I’ve just read your article about antimatter on Forbes, and I want to ask you a question: if antimatter really has antigravity, wouldn’t it repel only matter with positive mass, but not its own anti-mass particles? I thought that anti-mass would fuse just as mass do. Thank you and sorry for off-topic, there is no comment section there.

By: jpatrick

jpatrick — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 01:23:01 +0000

Einstein, in his 1905 paper doesn’t refer to either Thompson or Poincare, which I take to mean he worked independently of them. If that’s true, it’s similar to how Leibniz and Newton developed Calculus contemporarily and independently. It all seems to suggest that some ideas just have their time.

By: Sahil Barshikar

Sahil Barshikar — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:55:53 +0000

As Newton said it,”I was able to see beyond because I was able to stand up on the shoulders of the giants.”