https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/physics_0405066/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015524urn:hackerpapers:mention:physics_0405066:48015524Mon, 04 May 2026 21:55:16 GMT<p>Dude, if you genuinely want to know what happened, you should read some proper history of science. Here take this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0405066 It shows both how Einstein very much didn&#x27;t make the theory alone, was inspired to take impotat technical steps by work of other thats that created a theory based on his principles before him, and that actually he first created (in intense collaboration) a failed theory that got Mercury&#x27;s anomaly all sorts of wrong.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/physics_0405066/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph