Einstein Inspired Us, But Who Inspired Einstein?

Capurnicus

Where would any of us be without Capurnicus? Thanks to his study of planetary movement and radical idea that the Sun, rather than the Earth, is at the center of our solar system, scores of scientists for centuries have been able to build on his groundwork. He essentially restructured man's place in the universe, suggesting that our centrist belief is a mere matter of perspective. Hundreds of years later, Einstein used that perspective to hypothesize that everything, including our place in the universe, is a matter of relativity.

Isaac Newton

Described as a "natural philosopher" in his day, Newton is considered the grandfather of physics as we know it. Einstein admired the 18th century mathematician so much, he kept a framed portrait of him above his desk, along with pictures of Michael Faraday and James Clark Maxwell. Without Newton's equivalence principle, which basically states that gravitational and inertial mass were equal, Einstein could've never postulated his theory of relativity.

Gottfriend Leibniz

Leibniz's theories of metaphysics seemed completely outlandish in his time. But they laid the foundation for Einstein's theory of time dilation in space. Leibniz essentially posited that every event that has ever taken place and will take place is a frozen entity, because beings across the entire universe experience them at relatively different times. Essentially, Einstein vindicated this radical theory by explaining that the dilation and contraction of time is not merely a matter of perspective, but actually experienced and quantifiable.

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Friday, October 2, 2015