people say he is Einstein's Successor?
How brilliant is this guy?
Cooper Bell
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Caleb Clark
the only physicist to win a fields medal
Cameron Hughes
>physics
Matthew James
your garbage
Lucas Davis
But do you know anything about his work? Or is Veeky Forums only after prestige and black holes?
Ryan Cox
certainly he is an extremely intelligent man and probably will be deemed the most important theoretical physicist of the last 50 years in future history books. he also has a very high voice.
>einstein's successor
i don't know about that. einstein and newton are glorified not because they had fancy theories, but because their theories were able to explain previously unexplained phenomena and make new predictions which were subsequently verified. as far as i know, none of witten's work has done either.
Thomas Wilson
>your
6/10 bait.
Lucas Russell
This pretty much. Physics, as far as the fundamental principles go, is mostly figured out and self-consistent as far as we know. There won't be another Einstein because we don't need a revolution in how we view different references frames, etc.
I'd like to also say that it's ridiculous to think that one person would be credited with the next breakthrough (i.e. quantum gravity), but then again Einstein would be a nobody (to the general public, that is) without the works of Poincare, Hilbert, Minkowski, etc., as well as the experimenters who validated his theories; yet he's the only one that people know about.
Daniel Phillips
>Einstein's Successor
Einstein was bad in math
Adam Russell
BS