• Question: do you look up to albert einstien?

    Asked by Eleven_x to Michel on 15 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Michel Destrade

      Michel Destrade answered on 15 Nov 2016:


      Yes you bet, what a guy! Not only was his life story most interesting, but his work was pure genius. In the second year Mechanics course here in NUI Galway we teach special relativity, and then a bit of General Relativity in 4th year, but it’s still hard to understand how he did it. What’s most amazing is how many things he predicted and were only observed years later. 100 years for gravitational waves! can’t beat that for a prediction that turned out to be right!

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