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Comment by sitkack

4 months ago

Relativity was discovered by a single guy.

Not really. Relativity goes back to Galileo at least, and it's development by Einstein relied on Lorentz and Riemann among others. Science really is a process of /standing on the shoulders of giants/ as Newton is reputed to have said.

That doesn't diminish Einstein's achievement of course.

  • I made a facetious comment to parry that of pjmlp, whom also made a facetious comment wrt to compiler complexity and what "one person" can do.

    https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle

    It is like if one tried claiming that Fabrice Bellard was an example of a median dev.

    The number of C++ compilers written by one person is one. And because of this, it gives us no predictive power in what pjmlp was trying to assert.

    I agree with you, Albert and Lorentz and Riemann got caught in the rhetorical crossfire.