Website review: 5 Famous Inventors (Who Stole Their...
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•26 reviews since Mar 28, 2008
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xxStalkerxx discovered 4 months ago- From the page: "Well, put down that Digital Monster, high schooler, because we are about to blow your mind: Gal-Gal did not invent the telescope. Also, Rhianna sucks."
- virgio rated 2 months ago
- A lot of this inaccurate, according to wikipedia. I trust wikipedia over cracked.
- LanDragonfire rated 2 months ago
- gosh! I should relearn everything according to the author of this article
- dynotoaqrimp rated 3 months ago
- The only one I know to be true is Edison. The rest are very very very questionable.
- dffd rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "One of nine light bulbs Edison accidentally got wedged in his anus during its development"
- shadoobie rated 3 months ago
- "...Einstein does not reference, footnote or cite a single goddamn source in his entire paper." Apparently the Cracked crew is taking after the man; this article is VERY sparsely sourced.
- bndnchrs rated 4 months ago
- The most ridiculous statement made here is that Einstein not only was an inventor, but that he stole his "main" idea. To clarify this for all of those not familiar with Physics, special relativity was NOT Einstein's crowning achievement. In fact, any person with rudimentary skills in algebra can formulate the theory on their own. Certainly his insight was of utmost importance, but the theory used 20th century mathematics to obtain a very 20th century result. What the editors at this "magazine?" do not understand is that of the three papers produced by Einstein in the glorious year of Physics, the one on special relativity was the least important. Of his three ideas, the first was that the speed of light was invariant, or special relativity. This was a theory that drew from Lorentz's transforms and Maxwell's equations, and was a natural progression of mathematical and physical argument. The second, much more important of his three stunning papers were his second, on Brownian motion, which in less than 10 pages confirmed rigorously the theory of the atomic structure of matter, the crowning achievement of science. Feynman himself said that if there were five words he could say about science, and five words only, they would be "Things are made of atoms". This, however pales in comparison to Einstein's theory of General Relativity, which took Special relativity, and extended it to everyday situations, where speeds were far from the speed of light. This incredible theory came up the idea that we live in a 4-dimensional space-time, which can be warped and bent in all 4 dimensions. This was not a 20th century thought, not a natural progression, and the single most groundbreaking and dynamic theory in the history of science, one that said "see all this? Its not what you think it is". That is Einstein's legacy. To suggest that because somebody else was developing a theory in Special Relativity concomitantly means the greatest Physicist ever stole his ideas? Or that his crowning achievements are tainted suggest a lack of knowledge about the actual subject. Try and actually know what you are talking about before you start accusing brilliant men of cheating.
