Summary
Einstein's late development made him contemplate on the fundamentals of Physics at a late age and being matured, he didn't take the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass for granted.
And this contemplation at a matured age helped him change the very nature of Physics - the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass - on which all of Physics is build upon.
Thomas Alva Edison [3], the most celebrated modern day inventor (with an astonishing total of 1,093 US patents), suffered from hearing impairment from an early age.
But Edison mentioned that his hearing impairment helped him concentrate on his work, shutting out the world automatically for him.
During his early life, Tesla was stricken with illness time and time again. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions.
What seemed to be a neurological abnormality during childhood and teen years, actually helped him invent many of the precursors of the Electric grid technologies and Electrical machines we see around us today. Tesla invented all these devices in his mind utilizing his extraordinary powers of visualization and imagination.
How Peculiarities Turned Into Blessings For Geniuses
Albert Einstein
When a regular person studies Physics in College these days, he starts off with Quantum Theory and Relativity, and he has no time to look back on the fundamentals of Physics - the concepts and mathematical definitions of Momentum, Force, Space, Time and a few others over which all other concepts and mathematical definitions of Physics is build upon. The regular student grasped those concepts a lot earlier, even before he was a teen. So he took them for granted. He never contemplated on those fundamental concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass.
But not so for the great German born scientist Albert Einstein [1].
Albert Einstein's intellectual development was, in his own words "retarded". He wasn't the prodigious genius (like Carl Friedrich Gauss [2]) that we normally associate with geniuses of the quality of Einstein, but suffered from late development.
Let's listen to how Einstein himself described his peculiar conditions.
So Einstein's late development made him contemplate on the fundamentals of Physics at a late age and being matured, he didn't take the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass for granted.
He imagined himself gliding through the space at the speed of light and tried to figure out what would happen at that speed.
And this contemplation at a matured age helped him change the very nature of Physics - the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass - on which all of Physics is build upon.
Most of the theoretical Physicists we see around work on trying to find answers to big questions like how did the Universe begin, what would "the Theory Of Everything" look like, how do we find a new subatomic particle, how does Black Bodies radiate and the likes, "assuming" that the theories we have built thus far are correct. We rarely see a Physicist questioning the fundamental mathematical definitions and theories of Physics.
If Einstein's intellectual growth was normal, like most others, then the discoveries that he made might not have been possible.
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison [3], the most celebrated modern day inventor (with an astonishing total of 1,093 US patents), suffered from hearing impairment from an early age.
"Edison developed hearing problems at an early age. Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals." [3]
But Edison mentioned that his hearing impairment helped him concentrate on his work, shutting out the world automatically for him.
And we all know of the extraordinary concentration capability that Edison possessed. He used to go back to his couch from his lab, fell straight to sleep, slept for like a few hours and returned to his lab.
The great American inventor Edison's concentration was completely and singularly focused on his work.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla [4], the brilliant inventor who was a contemporary of and rivaled Thomas Alva Edison, had the gift of the ability to invent, design and even test a device completely in his mind. Tesla's powers of visualization and imagination were extraordinarily developed.
Let's look back at Tesla's childhood.
"During his early life, Tesla was stricken with illness time and time again. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions. Often, the visions were linked to a word or idea he might have come across; at other times they would provide the solution to a particular problem he had encountered. Just by hearing the name of an item, he would be able to envision it in realistic detail. Tesla would visualize an invention in his mind with extreme precision, including all dimensions, before moving to the construction stage, a technique sometimes known as picture thinking. He typically did not make drawings by hand but worked from memory. Beginning in his childhood, Tesla had frequent flashbacks to events that had happened previously in his life." [4] [5]
So what seemed to be a neurological abnormality during childhood and teen years, actually helped him invent many of the precursors of the Electric grid technologies and Electrical machines we see around us today. Tesla invented all these devices in his mind utilizing his extraordinary powers of visualization and imagination.
Einstein's late development made him contemplate on the fundamentals of Physics at a late age and being matured, he didn't take the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass for granted.
And this contemplation at a matured age helped him change the very nature of Physics - the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass - on which all of Physics is build upon.
Thomas Alva Edison [3], the most celebrated modern day inventor (with an astonishing total of 1,093 US patents), suffered from hearing impairment from an early age.
But Edison mentioned that his hearing impairment helped him concentrate on his work, shutting out the world automatically for him.
During his early life, Tesla was stricken with illness time and time again. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions.
What seemed to be a neurological abnormality during childhood and teen years, actually helped him invent many of the precursors of the Electric grid technologies and Electrical machines we see around us today. Tesla invented all these devices in his mind utilizing his extraordinary powers of visualization and imagination.
How Peculiarities Turned Into Blessings For Geniuses
Albert Einstein
When a regular person studies Physics in College these days, he starts off with Quantum Theory and Relativity, and he has no time to look back on the fundamentals of Physics - the concepts and mathematical definitions of Momentum, Force, Space, Time and a few others over which all other concepts and mathematical definitions of Physics is build upon. The regular student grasped those concepts a lot earlier, even before he was a teen. So he took them for granted. He never contemplated on those fundamental concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass.
But not so for the great German born scientist Albert Einstein [1].
Albert Einstein's intellectual development was, in his own words "retarded". He wasn't the prodigious genius (like Carl Friedrich Gauss [2]) that we normally associate with geniuses of the quality of Einstein, but suffered from late development.
Let's listen to how Einstein himself described his peculiar conditions.
“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
So Einstein's late development made him contemplate on the fundamentals of Physics at a late age and being matured, he didn't take the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass for granted.
He imagined himself gliding through the space at the speed of light and tried to figure out what would happen at that speed.
And this contemplation at a matured age helped him change the very nature of Physics - the concepts of Momentum, Force, Time, Space and Mass - on which all of Physics is build upon.
Most of the theoretical Physicists we see around work on trying to find answers to big questions like how did the Universe begin, what would "the Theory Of Everything" look like, how do we find a new subatomic particle, how does Black Bodies radiate and the likes, "assuming" that the theories we have built thus far are correct. We rarely see a Physicist questioning the fundamental mathematical definitions and theories of Physics.
If Einstein's intellectual growth was normal, like most others, then the discoveries that he made might not have been possible.
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison [3], the most celebrated modern day inventor (with an astonishing total of 1,093 US patents), suffered from hearing impairment from an early age.
"Edison developed hearing problems at an early age. Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals." [3]
But Edison mentioned that his hearing impairment helped him concentrate on his work, shutting out the world automatically for him.
And we all know of the extraordinary concentration capability that Edison possessed. He used to go back to his couch from his lab, fell straight to sleep, slept for like a few hours and returned to his lab.
The great American inventor Edison's concentration was completely and singularly focused on his work.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla [4], the brilliant inventor who was a contemporary of and rivaled Thomas Alva Edison, had the gift of the ability to invent, design and even test a device completely in his mind. Tesla's powers of visualization and imagination were extraordinarily developed.
Let's look back at Tesla's childhood.
"During his early life, Tesla was stricken with illness time and time again. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions. Often, the visions were linked to a word or idea he might have come across; at other times they would provide the solution to a particular problem he had encountered. Just by hearing the name of an item, he would be able to envision it in realistic detail. Tesla would visualize an invention in his mind with extreme precision, including all dimensions, before moving to the construction stage, a technique sometimes known as picture thinking. He typically did not make drawings by hand but worked from memory. Beginning in his childhood, Tesla had frequent flashbacks to events that had happened previously in his life." [4] [5]
So what seemed to be a neurological abnormality during childhood and teen years, actually helped him invent many of the precursors of the Electric grid technologies and Electrical machines we see around us today. Tesla invented all these devices in his mind utilizing his extraordinary powers of visualization and imagination.
Moral of the story:
"Always look at the brighter side of things".
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