Megatron being a grumpy boomer is actually perfect. Starscream is the failson idiot destined to ruin the family business.
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Also, calling #3 ācalculusā when itās just differentiation is a pretty big misnomer as well as an understatement of Newtonās contribution. What should be used instead is one or both of:
That was the real mindblowing shit, not that you can use the principle of a limit to find the slope of a point on a curve.
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sorta interesting foreign policy wonkness.
Didnāt Einstein steal his shit from Lorentz or Poincare or one of those dudes?
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https://twitter.com/DickKingSmith/status/1387646338289053696
https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1387763734765088768
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Those guys and others had done prior work. Stole seems too strong but Einstein was no choir boy. He gave them no credit. His first wife may also have contributed to his ideas but got no mentions.
Itās an interesting question how creative anyone can ever really be. Like, in response to @MrWookie, I kind of want to defend the definition of derivative as representative of calculus of over the fundamental theorems because it explicitly includes the limit. FTC gets pretty short shrift in typical calculus texts. But really, I havenāt got anything to say about it that I didnāt get from hearing someone else say it. In this case, most recently, in Steven Strogatzā book Infinite Powers. Good book, btw.
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Lorentz had worked out a lot of the math, and the sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) factor still bears his name to this day, but Einsteinās principle contribution to special relativity was not the math but the bold theory that the speed of light in a vacuum was constant in all inertial reference frames, and that there is no one absolute inertial frame of reference, that all are equivalent. The necessary consequences of these absolutes, such as time dilation and the Lorentz contraction, had been proposed by people earlier, such as Lorentz, but their work was in the context of a fundamentally flawed conception of the universe, that there was some sort of aether, the medium proposed to be what light waves propagate through, and all the accompanying hypotheses such a proposal would lead to (is the aether fixed in space or does mass drag it along when moving through it, etc.). This was before that same Einstein fellow figured out that light wasnāt a wave like a water wave but operated in quanta of energy that strangely donāt need a medium to flow through while still acting like waves. Iām pretty comfortable giving the most credit to the guy who arrived at the correct explanation of the universe, even if some other guys did more math.
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I was going to read this but Iām creeped out by the popup that tells me the Orwell foundation uses cookies and requires me to accept them.
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Thatās compelling, and itās what I gathered from wikipedia even though the mass-energy-equivalence article isnāt nearly as clear and concise as your post, but on the other hand thereās this family guy clip:
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I think E=mc2 was when he was a baby in 1905. In 1916 it was more serious business.
More like E=mcWhoCares amirite
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Like the guy who invented frosting was probably all āLe voila!ā And the guys who spent their lifetimes developing cake were like āLook at Einstein over here. Puts sugar on cake and gets all the glory. This is bullshit.ā
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Einstein was an idiot and Iām a much better person than him, imo
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I think in this analogy Riemann and some other math guys are the dudes who invented cake.
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