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bioemerl · 3328 days ago · link · · parent · post: Without Einstein it would have taken decades longer to understand gravity
Maybe without Einstein there would have been another Einstein a year later? Maybe there would have been a big splattering of advances across a ton of scientists due to some breakthrough somewhere? Maybe having such a diversity of opinion in figuring out relativity would have caused a larger growth in knowledge than if we had Einstein around. Maybe if Einstein hadn't been born the earth would have fallen out of it's orbit due to a different mass distribution and we would all be dead! We don't know, those things didn't happen.