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- Title
How Einstein Did Not Discover.
- Authors
Norton, John
- Abstract
What powered Einstein's discoveries? Was it asking naïve questions, stubbornly? Was it a mischievous urge to break rules? Was it the destructive power of operational thinking? It was none of these. Rather, Einstein made his discoveries through lengthy, mundane investigations, pursued with tenacity and discipline. We have been led to think otherwise in part through Einstein's brilliance at recounting in beguilingly simple terms a few brief moments of transcendent insight, and in part through our need to find a simple trick underlying his achievements. These ideas are illustrated with the examples of Einstein's 1905 discoveries of special relativity and the light quantum.
- Subjects
PHYSICS research; PHOTONS; EINSTEIN, Albert, 1879-1955; SPECIAL relativity (Physics); LIGHT quantization
- Publication
Physics in Perspective, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 3, p249
- ISSN
1422-6944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00016-016-0186-z