Who do you think is the best physicist and why?
I can’t really choose between the two, but if I had to pick it would be Einstein. His theories of space and time being warped from high gravity and the distortion of how spacetime is viewed in moving frames of reference make me want to cry from the beauty.
Wasn’t Tesla a physicist? Dude was brilliant.
I think he was mainly an engineer, but yes he knew a lot about physics.
Dont really know much about it, but newton didnt really have much effect outside academics
Einstein was epic guy from an epic time, WW2 and birth of the atomic age and now nuclear politics.
No question who the bigger man is.
Actually he laid the foundation of modern physics. He discovered gravitational force, laws of motion, optics, etc.
He also invented calculus.
He’s pretty close to Einstein.
Ya i forgot about alot of newtons stuff, but i still got to think Al has more epic story
Computers are evolving FAST. We may not be able to make them conscious yet though, because we are yet to know what causes consciousness Lolol
Computers are getting scarily smart
Computers havent singlehandedly solved complex mysteries about nature yet that i know of, but I think I miscommunicated anyway
I don’t think they have either, but I know nothing about computers.
This is more of a question for a computer scientist
When I said Al that was short form for Albert not AI as in artificial intelligence
But it still made sense so whatever
lol you’re fine, I should have clarified!
Not using nukes is like a nash equilibrium situation that einstein helped create through his e=mc2 equation calculating nuclear energy in nukes and is possibly causing global stability but immense risk at the same time
I like Maxwell the most, or maybe Dirac
Edit: I didn’t answer why. The why is because as far as theoretical physics goes they did a lot of fascinating work on theoretical physics with very little help
Maxwell’s equations 
That’s exactly why lol, they’re so neat and tidy but describe something so powerful ! 
I had to pick both because they were both innovative geniuses who changed the way the world was viewed, just in their respective times (and beyond). Einstein probably wouldn’t have developed his theories without the backbone of Newton’s theories…either way, i sucked at physics in school, it was one endless word problem in math!
Without a doubt Newton was the much greater thinker.
Infinitesimal calculus in itself is superior to any one of Einstein’s achievements in my view.
Einstein was brilliant too and had some thought experiments, but Newton laid the foundation for Mathematics. Einstein was building on Newton’s ideas on gravity as well. Lastly, Einstein may be proven incorrect in time, his theory may be refined or reformed altogether as there never is finality in Physics, and science, but Mathematics is universal, infinitesimal calculus is an achievement for all times and all peoples.
ya, i dont understand the science and math side though I just look at einstein in that period of history as being a big figure, where newton lived in fairly comfortable times, and did have impact on future events, but 20th century rise global fascism and nukes being decisive of ultimate victory for liberal democrats and einstein was key nuclear physicist. i think thats much bigger story
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