Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper

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1. interfixusSep 2019
   The War of The Worlds, H.G. Wells, 1898

   Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861

   Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper ("On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"), A. Einstein, 1905

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2. uniqueidApr 2021
   That's expecting far too much. It was a couple decades before E=mc². Einstein published 'Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper' in 1905. People weren't sure if such a thing as an atom even existed in the 19th century.
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3. interfixusOct 2018
   The prime glory of Einstein's 1905 papers is their accessibility. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper is famously devoid of footnotes, and contains no insurmountable math.

   Of course he dashed off another three articles in the same edition of Annalen der Physik, all on the same level of comprehensibility, one of which scored him a Nobel prize.

   The difficulty of relativity was and is a silly meme. The basic principles are straightforward. I understood them as a boy, and I am - by a regrettably enormous stretch - no genius.

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4. mhartlFeb 2009
   A common argument is that it's valuable to have a partner as a sounding board and as a source of moral support. These roles are vital, but they don't necessarily have to be filled by founders. Einstein needed the help of his friend Michele Besso to develop special relativity, but Besso wasn't a coauthor on Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper.

   I don't see two as a natural lower bound on the number of founders. As the productivity of individual programmers continues to rise, I expect to see an increasing number of single-founder startups succeed.

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