Hi friends,
who do you think is the greatest scientist of all time? Albert Einstein or Sir Isaac Newton? The royal society of Britain is doing a poll to determine who people think is greater between these two. lets see how Nepalese think on this.

For me, I would go for Einstein. Because, although Newton did what he did 3 centuries ago, Einstein's was a much difficult deduction.
Saying that, Einstein got the breathing air because Newton achieved so many things from scratch. So what do you reckon-Einstein or Newton?

Here's the link to vote:
- http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3848

right on rajeshhamal.

When a particle/object travels close to the speed of light, and is thus considered "relativistic", the energy (since momentum is a measure of energy) of the particle is expressed as momentum = (gamma)*mass*velocity. Here gamma is a relativistic factor that is greater than unity. So, one could consider the factor (gamma)*mass a new mass, one that is larger than the mass of the particle when it is at rest. This is why you hear that mass increases when you approach the speed of light. It can be argued that it is only an appearance of greater mass, or that it depends on how you look at the problem. In short, it is all relative. ;) It should be noted, however, that in order for an object to actually reach the speed of light, it must have no mass, since E=mass*speed of light^2. This is true of massless particles such as the photon, the "particle" that transports light. (Notation:* means multiply by and ^2 means squared).

various versions of the argument that who is greater exists, but as Newton said, and someone previously pointed out "We are tall only because we stand in the shoulders of giants". I doubt that Einstein would have been Einstein had Newton not formulated his laws a couple of hundred years ago and we must also remember the contributions of all the scientists in between from Gauss, Maxwell, DeBroglie etc to the modern day scientists like Feynmann et al.

If NEWTON had not contributed so much , there would not be any guy named einstein in human history for thousands of years to formulate his theory of relativity.... nowadays scientific community believes that if einstein had not discovered theory of relativity, then somebody else could have discovered it because the height of knowledge had been achieved at that era to derive relationship between space n time n light...

Satisfied, but I abandoned the paradigm of physics long ago. So, no idea what's the progress in it on this mordern age.

some of participants of the discussion on this thread seem to be modern physicists. can anybody explain why light bends near the sun (or why light carrier photons deviates near heavy objects like sun)? in a very plain language, please? i still keep interest on the progress in physical sciences, but can not understand the mechanisms behind such natural phenomena that modern physicists tend to explain.