Albert Einstein

A moment of brillance? Not hardly. Einstein's Nobel Prize in Physics was not even for relativity, it was for something else, I think to do with Brownian motion. That's 2 great ideas which is more than a moment of brillance. Remember the concept of "wormholes" in Star Trek? These were the short cuts to far off corners of the universe. Guess who first postulated these existed? In 1928! Yes, it was Einstein. As to the comment,"God doesn't play dice", I don't believe Einstein was disagreeing with the Heisenberg uncertainity principal as many believe. What he was saying was basically something along the lines of,"Well, that's only a limitation on man, God still knows what is going to happen." In other words, "God doesn't play dice." Einstein's theories have pretty well stood the test of time and are just now beginning to be seriously challenged. How? They certainly are not being challenged by the likes of me. You'll have to ask someone else!

Yeah he was a top scientist. did you know that all the early scientists had something wrong with their brain, even Einstein. He had autism. Maybe he could see things that are different to the normal human and that particular area of his brain was more active than what ours are. He was good at theory, but not that good at anything else. Which comes to show that anyone could have a successful life all you have to do is find something you are good at like Einstein did. bravo einstein you're a legend in my books.

you can put any picture you want for this interest. For me Einstein is the best.

I think this saying 'God Doesn't Play Dice' is a reference to nothing happens by chance, there is a way to understand how things work. Everthing is mathematically calculable. Whether the calculations are correct is another thing. And I don't think we have all the right equipment to calculate everything. Scientists speculate then prove, or try to. As for Einstein being the myLot face for science. He is definitely not the most brilliant scientist known, but he seems to be the most popular. I wonder if any scientist can be brilliant all the time and it is these moments of brilliance that make rise to notoriety. I'd like to hear from the scientists who think perhaps good discoveries are like winning the lottery.

Your going to have to up that to at least 2 ... special AND general relativity. Special relativity is works in time independant situations (all parts move at constant speeds in the same direction all the time), general relativity can be time dependant (velocity changes allowed). Einstein said a lot more than just "God does not play dice"

Einstein was maybe the first pop scientist. It might be that his reputation has been a bit inflated. When it comes to special relativity, one thing is sure, Einstein did not found the theory from scratch. The equations that give the position of a particle in a new reference were already established by Lorentz and known as the transformation of Lorentz. Also, Lorentz used a variable called t' in these equations, though he did not give it any meaning. Einstein, stated that this variable represented time in the new reference at that time is relative. Also, the idea of a 4-dimensional space was not new. Einstein, borrowed it from one of his professors, unfortunately, I forgot his name. Also, mathematician Henri Poincare established a similar theory. I also heard a theory stating that many of Einstein's ideas belonged to his first wife who studied physics in Zurich, but never managed to get her degree. To sum it up, everything is relative, including the reputation of Einstein himself.