Because everyone knows Einstein was the smartest person that ever lived and the best physicist ever, right? Einstein is only famous because of the press he got, because the press glorified him without knowing why, and everyone read the press. Sure he was bright, but he was also all too human. Everyone thinks he single-handedly changed physics forever while in isolation as a desk clerk at a patent office, but the truth is he stood firmly on the shoulders of giants like Poincaré and Lorentz, not to mention his teacher Minkowski and his friend Grossman. Nearly all of the ideas attributed to Einstein were actually someone elses' ideas. Neither Relativity nor the constancy of the speed of light were Einstein's ideas, and not remotely so. History just gave him all the credit.
Because everyone knows Einstein was the smartest person that ever lived and the best physicist ever, right? Einstein is only famous because of the press he got, because the press glorified him without knowing why, and everyone read the press. Sure he was bright, but he was also all too human. Everyone thinks he single-handedly changed physics forever while in isolation as a desk clerk at a patent office, but the truth is he stood firmly on the shoulders of giants like Poincaré and Lorentz, not to mention his teacher Minkowski and his friend Grossman. Nearly all of the ideas attributed to Einstein were actually someone elses' ideas. Neither Relativity nor the constancy of the speed of light were Einstein's ideas, and not remotely so. History just gave him all the credit.