Battle of the Physicists! Newton or Einstein?

Which of the geniuses, Newton or Einstein do you like better! Vote!

  • Einstein
  • Newton

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I voted Newton. I think the world would be better without A :bomb:.

I voted Newton. I like his thinking. An apple drops on his head and then he questions why. How. That’s cool.

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I like Einstein. I love his theories of how space and time work.

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I do have to say that I like some Einstein quotes.

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Gotta go with Karsh.

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His imagination quotes are cool

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I had to look that up before I understood.

(He’s a photographer who also took a portrait of Einstein)

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It wasn’t Einstein’s fault the bomb was made. That was Oppenheimer.

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Yea that photo where he sticks his tongue out is epic, dunno if this dude is the one who took it.

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My favorite photo of Einstein!

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They usually credit it to him. But history writing can be a tricky business.

Einstein came up with the idea that matter and energy are on a continuum. He predicted if mass traveled the speed of light it would explode into a large amount of energy.

The bomb is about nuclear fission.

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Okay. Now I feel ignorant :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

You’re fine!!! Everyone makes that mistake, me included.

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I find it exceedingly ironic that the man who gave us the most destructive power in history was a committed pacifist. He wanted the bomb to be used only once and then be put on the shelf. At the height of the Cold War, Russia and the U.S. both had 25,000 nuclear warheads at their disposal.

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Einstein was VERY agains t the bomb. He felt terrible about it.

I think it was Hitler that made up his mind for him.

I think I heard a close family member of Einstein had sz