<story><title>Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/leonardo-noted-link-between-gravity-and-acceleration-centuries-before-einstein/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xgstation</author><text>Many great mathematicians and physicists had used time as 4th dimension, but none developed it out into special relativity, even Lorentz has his name on the Lorentz&amp;#x27;s transformation, but he didn&amp;#x27;t see a brand new space-time relationship. There is a huge gap between linking something together to writing it down with a mind boggling and fundamentally new theory to reshape how human beings see the universe. That said, all people&amp;#x27;s work are built on top of predecessors. Without generations work on mathematics before 20 century, Einstein wouldn&amp;#x27;t have developed GR as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loufe</author><text>Great point and you said it well. Darwin was much the same, many of the ideas he discusses were already out there, but he brought them together in a novel, united, coherent, and compelling way that really made the idea of evolution stand on its own feet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/leonardo-noted-link-between-gravity-and-acceleration-centuries-before-einstein/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xgstation</author><text>Many great mathematicians and physicists had used time as 4th dimension, but none developed it out into special relativity, even Lorentz has his name on the Lorentz&amp;#x27;s transformation, but he didn&amp;#x27;t see a brand new space-time relationship. There is a huge gap between linking something together to writing it down with a mind boggling and fundamentally new theory to reshape how human beings see the universe. That said, all people&amp;#x27;s work are built on top of predecessors. Without generations work on mathematics before 20 century, Einstein wouldn&amp;#x27;t have developed GR as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dandanua</author><text>To make such a significant breakthrough like relativity theory it&amp;#x27;s not enough to see connections between seemingly unrelated things.&lt;p&gt;You have to have a sufficiently open and free mind to be able to discard beliefs of generations of scientists. Including your own, implanted through instincts.</text></comment>