Norton, John D. (2016) How Einstein Did Not Discover. [Preprint]
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What powered Einstein’s discoveries? Was it asking naïve questions, stubbornly? Was it a mischievous urge to break rules? Was it the destructive power of operational thinking? It was none of these. Rather, Einstein made his discoveries through lengthy, mundane investigations, pursued with tenacity and discipline. We have been led to think otherwise in part through Einstein’s brilliance at recounting in beguilingly simple terms a few brief moments of transcendent insight; and in part through our need to find a simple trick underlying his achievements. These ideas are illustrated with the examples of Einstein’s 1905 discoveries of special relativity and the light quantum.
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Keywords: | Einstein Discover Light Quantum Special Relativity | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics General Issues > Thought Experiments |
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Depositing User: | John Norton | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2016 17:22 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2016 17:22 | ||||||
Item ID: | 12289 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics General Issues > Thought Experiments |
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Date: | 14 April 2016 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12289 |
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