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Originally Posted by dleviwing Sorry Guille, I didn't read it that way.
BTW: Newton wins the debate since he created the math that Einstein was unable to use without consulting a mathematician. It is quite likely that you have a higher IQ than Einstein had.
Dave
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I agree. Newton was not only had a bigger IQ than Einstein, but he was a better scientist, and contribute dmore to humanity and science: he actually is the figure that separated, in his principia, science form philosophy. And that earthquake, as big as the one that occured when the americas devided from euroasiafrica, still makes people tremble when they get into one discipline whiles trying to do the other.
This week in one of the only 2 spanish private tv channels, they are doing the "grand test of inteligence" show. In the adverb they say Einstein had 160 IQ whiles Marylin Monroe 162 IQ, making fun and contradiction to the common-thinking (wrong) that blond wemen are stupid and that Einstein was the smartest of all times.
One thing they say in the debate in favor of Einstein is quite important: that who is right shoul dbe regarded as the best contributor. And Newton looses there. But of course, if Einstein wouldn't ahve been there, very soon, maybe a pair of years later, another scientist would have done what he did. Whiles if Newton had never been there, probably the whole of humanity would have retarded, and a decades or centuries would have passed until one did what he did.
But both of them, I don't see why they are seen as such big icons in science: they were both crazy (on of paranoya, one of imagniation), and they based their development on other's ideas (one on Hooke's idea, one on planck's). It's like If I go and start developing a TOE from the principles of Antonio's equations for quantized and continuous space.