USATODAY.com - Scientists debate wait on the next Einstein. Live life, learn philosophy, play and create music. Then do science. The science will be better by it.
Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of 1905. These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by a virtual unknown. There were no footnotes or citations.Posted by johnvu at April 26, 2005 03:01 PMWhat might happen to such a submission today?
"We all get papers like those in the mail," Green said, "We put them in the crank file."