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Comment author: [deleted] 16 September 2012 06:47:47PM 1 point [-]

Are those on par with Einstein's work? (Maybe they're close enough -- though I'd wait a bit longer before saying that; but if you count how many physicists are working today and how many were working in the early 20th century...)

Comment author: shminux 17 September 2012 04:10:27AM *  5 points [-]

Are those on par with Einstein's work?

They are not. Einstein took some existing math and the hints of new physics and built a beautiful model on top of it, with marvelous new predictions, all of which pan out. Then he did it again 10 years later.

Nothing like it has been repeated since. Creation of QM was close, but it was a collective effort over decades, still quite unfinished.