Typhoon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:08 pm
Unfortunately for you, you've chosen to go on about a field with which I am somewhat familiar.
First, physics is an experimental science.
As R. P. Feynman stated succinctly
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are.
If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
One has to feel a bit sorry for theorists such as Vafa and Arkani-Hamed, very bright and clever individuals who spent their careers working on hiigh energy particle [HEP] subfields, string "theory" and supersymmetry, respectively, that turned out to be abject dead ends.
Not just wrong, but "not even wrong".
String "theory". Theory in quotes as string "theory", despite some four decades of intense effort has yet to yield a single testable prediction. The current state of strings is that they are tangled up in their internal contradictions. Or more accurately,
stuck in the "swampland".
Supersymmetry. Supersymmetric particles, the "spatricle" counterparts of the particles of the Standard Model, were first predicted to be observed at the Tevatron as Fermilab. Nothing. Then at higher energies at LEP at CERN. Nothing. Finally at the current highest energies at the LHC at CERN. Again, nothing. Supersymmetry has been effectively rules out - nature does not exhibit supersymmetry.
Within one generation, HEP has gone from being the premier field in physics to being moribund.
One also has to feel sorry for Einstein. His name is often invoked by people who have no understanding of his achievements.
Possibly the most misquoted historical figure on the internet.
Einstein was a phenomenon. Possibly unique.
His seminal contributions:
Brownian motion - the existence of atoms. Confirmed by numerous experiments.
Photoelectiric effect - the existence of light as quanta - photons. Confirmed by numerous experiments.
Special relativity - solving the then apparent inconsistency between electromagnetism and mechanics. Confirmed by numerous experiments.
General relativity - the theory of gravity
which has been repeatedly tested to every higher accuracy and has passed all tests to-date.
So your examples are no "Einsteins".
Anyways, the gold standard for recognition of progress in physics, chemistry, and biology - medicine is the Nobel awards,
So,
take your pick,
Einstein did not have any laboratory, any research centers, any money, any budget to develop his "relativity" theories .. he was all the time broke and even had to take a job to pay bills .. all of his world shattering theories were dreamed and developed in his brain probably laying in his bed
That is what changes the world, that is the definition of a "genius"
Those "Nobel Prize winners" were the real "genius."
Today's Nobel prize winners are smart multi Phd holders, but not of "genius" cliber .. they work in team, in Billions of dollars laboratories, with unlimited resources and support of universities and governments ..
with all these if they don't win "Noble Prize" that would mean they I.d.i.o.t.s
Re Japan Nobel Prize list you linked , I read each of them what they got the "Noble Prize" for .. non are of the "genius." type I explained above, they all worked in teams in expensive big laboratories and big industries.
Exception is Eisaku Satō, 1974 Prime minister, a respectable man
If a Nation has no funds for big expensive laboratory and industrial laboratories, these kind of 'scientist" can not win anything
That is and was the case with China, India, Iran
But now is changing .. China has now top top universities paar with MIT etc and has the money for expensive laboratories .. India getting there, Iran trying
What does this mean re "Nobel Prize" winners ?
It means , in a few generations many Nobel prize winner will be from China , India , Iran, etc
To have an indication who will be future "Nobel Prize" winners, check the various "Olympiads" , science, Math, physik etc etc
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So many top iranian experts and scientist in top US institution attests Iranian talent plenty, but money still lacks .. that changing too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
https://unctad.org/webflyer/science-tec ... eview-iran
You often mention Iran "theocracy", but , mad mullahs pushing hard for Iran to excel in science .. now majority of Iran scientist are young girls, majority of science students girls .. and .. an exploding high tech startups .. Iran has now many high tech successful startups
The Ayatollahs has declared the (the Iranian year is 1400) this decade the Iranian technology excellence decade
Iran is where "science" was born ..
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