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Blog: Einstein in the News
How would the world be different if Einstein had never lived?Tuesday, March 15, 2005 The Globe asked four top scientists about their views of Einstein's importance.
Scientifically, as physicists, we of course do think that physics would end up in the same place. . . .
I think the idea that the idea of him as the iconic figure -- he was the man of the century -- so I think the way we think about science would be different. . . . Maybe people would be less interested in science, and what would have happened with the (atomic) bomb? Probably World War II would have ended pretty soon anyway, but when would the Soviet Union have fallen apart?
LISA RANDALL, Harvard physicist
Full story from The Boston Globe. posted by Einstein A to Z
