Albert Einstein is a free thinking genius that thought outside the box different from the normality of many scientific figures during the years (1879–1955) with many great accomplishments from "Special Theory of Relativity" to "General Theory of Relativity" (Bowles & Kaplan, 2012). Additionally, Einstein was the type of intellectual thinker that with his scientific mindset he was able to articulate some of his theories such as "Special Theory of Relativity" with his innovative thought experiment (Bowles & Kaplan, 2012). Like music where other artist get influenced by previous work from artist in the past I feel as though Einstein further expounded upon previous works such as Newton's conception of absolute space and time demonstrating individuals observable perceptions would differ from one in motion versus the other not in motion (Bowles & Kaplan, 2012). To further give light from my understanding Einstein took science to another level just like when George Clinton took blues from B.B. King, and then combine it with psychedelic rock from Jimi Hendrix formulating funk music then that genre of music has trickled down into hip hop with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg creating now what people consider influential hip hop or G-Funk that sparked much political unrest during the late 1980's to the early 2000's. Many scientific figures influence pop culture both Darwin, and Einstein made their significant contributions to society that will continuously influence academia, culture, technology, and be used as a thought reference point for future intellectuals. To make a contrast between both Einstein, and Darwin I think we must put their era that includes type of society, political atmosphere plus technology and include the significance of their body of work contributing to science and culture at large. Even though both quantum physics, and Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection were faced with opposition both made a cultural impact that influence the world more important the education system (Bowles & Kaplan, 2012) I feel as though Quantum physics in the United States had a larger cultural impact than Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection for a number of reasons. First, during Darwin's time technology was not as developed such as the radio, recording devices such as in Einstein era those such technologies helped the spread of Einstein work. Second, one being a biologist and the other a physicist Einstein was one of the first scientist to public be visible both in a social and political cause compared to Darwin that the speculation of him dealing with those two fields (Alan, 2005). Thirdly, the application of the theories between quantum physics, and Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Neil deGrasse Tyson explains that individuals uses Darwin's theory as a framework to get an idea or an understanding whereas Einstein theory can be tested with an equation so the application maybe more practical with Einstein compared to darwin (Alan, 2005). In retrospect, I think both are great scientist that contributed great to science I feel as though that Einstein not only had a cultural impact larger than Darwin, but also may have arguably change how science is both used and viewed by many.
Reference:
1.) Bowles, M. & Kaplan, B. (2012). Science and culture throughout history.
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2.) Alan, Boyle. (2005) Einstein, Darwin: A tale of 2 theories
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