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http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/13-e-nste-n
"Could the Next Einstein Be a Surfer Dude? Six iconoclasts who could
revolutionize physics--again.....Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute for
Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada, suggests some key qualities to
look for. A deep understanding of physics is crucial, of
course.....With Smolin's aid, DISCOVER has scoured the landscape and
found six top candidates who show intriguing signs of that Einsteinian
spark. Smolin is too modest to say so, but he might qualify as a
seventh..."

Seventh Next Einstein Lee Smolin deeply understands the difference
between Newton's emission theory of light and Einstein's idiocies:

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=5f32739a-624d-4ec8-9ecc-4d44d3d16fe9
Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

Second Next Einstein Stephen Hawking deeply understands the Michelson-
Morley experiment and can even draw valuable implications:

http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html
Stephen Hawking: "Interestingly enough, Laplace himself wrote a paper
in 1799 on how some stars could have a gravitational field so strong
that light could not escape, but would be dragged back onto the star.
He even calculated that a star of the same density as the Sun, but two
hundred and fifty times the size, would have this property. But
although Laplace may not have realised it, the same idea had been put
forward 16 years earlier by a Cambridge man, John Mitchell, in a paper
in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Both Mitchell
and Laplace thought of light as consisting of particles, rather like
cannon balls, that could be slowed down by gravity, and made to fall
back on the star. But a famous experiment, carried out by two
Americans, Michelson and Morley in 1887, showed that light always
travelled at a speed of one hundred and eighty six thousand miles a
second, no matter where it came from. How then could gravity slow down
light, and make it fall back. This was impossible, according to the
then accepted ideas of space and time. But in 1915, Einstein put
forward his revolutionary General Theory of Relativity."

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