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I am surprised you would rate Newton over Einstein, but I do agree with you
that Newton is the greatest physicist of all time.  The next one is Maxwell.
Einstein would not even rank the top 100 in my list.

One genius who did not have anybody's work to build on besides data points
but came up with something very respectable is Kepler.  Another one who has
his works covering hundred of volumes is Euler.  Euler won out by quantity.

Einstein would be a great physicist if his General Relativity is not based
on the following two assumptions.

**  Speed of light being the same every where
**  No inertial frame of reference

He has no excuse to make those assumptions, the Michelson-Morley Experiment
hinted against his assumptions:

**  Relative speed of light being lowered through time dilation
**  More inertial frame of reference through causality of photons
(simultaneity of events)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,it.scienza
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 06:11 PM
Subject: Re: Einstein, Dirac and so on....

"Robert J. Kolker" <robert_kolker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:l90Fc.10912$IQ4.4716@attbi_s02...
>
> davidoff404 wrote:
>
> > Besides, everyone knows that Hamilton was the "best"
> > physicist/mathematician...
>
> Nope. It was Newton. He had to invent ALL his tools.

Yep.  A recent survey of physicists rated Einstein ahead of Newton.  I do no
agree with that - he stands head an shoulders above them all including
Einstein.  I believe he is also the greatest mathematical of all time - but
the issue is less clear cut - Gauss has a good claim as well.  The order of
my top 6 is - Newton, Einstein, Maxwell, Feynman, Landau and Dirac.  But
that is only my opinion.

Thanks
Bill