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At least no one voted for Edison
Pretty good, though I don't have Faraday quite on this list.Galileo
Faraday
Newton
Einstein
all equally as important
Pretty good, though I don't have Faraday quite on this list.
Gauss and Euler were incredible, but probably count more as mathematicians? Emmy Noether would then be up there as well.
Tesla does not belong on this list of options in general. He is an inventor, not a scientist, and was actually almost pseudo-scientific at times, and is incredibly overrated by his weird cult-following that attributes mythical things to him.
Which is why I didn't mention Edison - Tesla was an inventor who was at times demonstrably anti-science, which for me wipes out his claim to the title of "scientist."Inventors are industrial/applied scientists.
Which is why I didn't mention Edison - Tesla was an inventor who was at times demonstrably anti-science, which for me wipes out his claim to the title of "scientist."
Pretty good, though I don't have Faraday quite on this list.
Gauss and Euler were incredible, but probably count more as mathematicians? Emmy Noether would then be up there as well.
Tesla does not belong on this list of options in general. He is an inventor, not a scientist, and was actually almost pseudo-scientific at times, and is incredibly overrated by his weird cult-following that attributes mythical things to him.
Fair enough
The way I see it
- if Gallileo didn’t work on falling bodies (also let’s not forget the telescope )
- newton would not have been able to have his laws of motion and then come up with the concept of gravity. Not to forget the invention of Calculas
- and without newton’s work; Einstein would not have been able to change the landscape of physics by defining what is gravity and curvature of space/time
- and I really should have also listed quantum mechanics folks like shrodinger; without whom modern world as we know it with all the gizmos might not have been possible
I do hope that einstein’s wish comes true to have a one unifying theory that ties in quantum mechanics with macros of the universe. The probabilities associated with quantum mmechanics do freak me out a bit lol
P.S. only reason I listed Faraday was because of the discovery of one of the most important force the electromagnetic force
In a very engineering sense, yeah. I don't mean to make it sound like I hate the guy (I even built his coil for fun) but I definitely reflexively push back on a lot of the popularity he gets (and a visit to the "Nikola Tesla facebook page would quickly show you why). But if Maxwell's equations were even developed when he was doing his stuff, I bet anything he didn't know how to use them. And his bizarre takes on relativity were stupid.He was also definitely very well versed in the application of actual science in most of his inventions. No one's perfect.
The beauty of science is that each generation builds upon the previous one.
In a very engineering sense, yeah. I don't mean to make it sound like I hate the guy (I even built his coil for fun) but I definitely reflexively push back on a lot of the popularity he gets (and a visit to the "Nikola Tesla facebook page would quickly show you why). But if Maxwell's equations were even developed when he was doing his stuff, I bet anything he didn't know how to use them. And his bizarre takes on relativity were stupid.
Quite a good layout. And it's not that Faraday was undeserving, that might not be fair to me. I just kinda worship the other threeFair enough
The way I see it
- if Gallileo didn’t work on falling bodies (also let’s not forget the telescope )
- newton would not have been able to have his laws of motion and then come up with the concept of gravity. Not to forget the invention of Calculas
- and without newton’s work; Einstein would not have been able to change the landscape of physics by defining what is gravity and curvature of space/time
- and I really should have also listed quantum mechanics folks like shrodinger; without whom modern world as we know it with all the gizmos might not have been possible
I do hope that einstein’s wish comes true to have a one unifying theory that ties in quantum mechanics with macros of the universe. The probabilities associated with quantum mmechanics do freak me out a bit lol
P.S. only reason I listed Faraday was because of the discovery of one of the most important force the electromagnetic force
Also true, but I think every no-BS scientist on this list had far greater reverence and understanding of their field and of the scientific method than Nikola did.To be fair though, most revolutionary scientists had some bizarre theories. Some were only bizarre for their time and were eventually proven true, others were actually bizarre. Those type of people tend to think way, way, WAY outside of the box. And when you do that, sometimes you look silly 100 years in the future.
Also true, but I think every no-BS scientist on this list had far greater reverence and understanding of their field and of the scientific method than Nikola did.
Quite a good layout. And it's not that Faraday was undeserving, that might not be fair to me. I just kinda worship the other three
QM is interesting, because there is no one guy that had as much influence as an Einstein or Newton did. Nobody pulled QM out of the ****ing blue in such a manner as that it might not have existed for 100 years without them, as was the case with Newton and Einstein. But there's no doubt that Fermi, Dirac, Schwinger, Schrodinger, Planck et. al. were absolute giants.
Also fair.That's fair, but it was more of a Wild West as far as scientific method and reverence were concerned during the time Tesla was practicing his craft. Not everyone was on the same page all the time.
Also fair.
I'd probably never say Tesla's name again, especially not in a negative light, if my friends didn't constantly share stoned statuses about how the entire world would be running on free wireless electricity if he hadn't been assassinated by the new world order.