Originally Posted by ColinsMum
...there was a thread recently...in which people were opining that physics hadn't seen anyone as clever as Einstein since Einstein. That's IMNSHO total rubbish. ... (Of course, if the person who claimed this was an active researcher in theoretical physics, I might possibly have to stand corrected, as I'm not one!)

Actually...it's not that there hasn't been anyone as clever as Einstein, so much as that there hasn't been a major breakthrough in theoretical physics since the 70s.

And I will now start a new thread on this very interesting education topic so as not to further pull this thread away from its original ideas (which have been lost in time at this point....). smile

Val

Last edited by Val; 05/03/11 09:59 AM.