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Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:13 pm**

Article.

This is actually pretty interesting.

Is society's structure different from back then so that a new Einstein could be held back and never discovered?

Personally, I think yes, but I'm not sold they such a person couldn't have been held back then as well.

I like how in the article they admit that they throw away theories that could be "brilliant" because the current climate calls them "crackpot".

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:23 pm**

And vice versa, depending on your political bent.

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:36 pm**

Yes, especially if he wore a red mowhawk and face paint

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:32 pm**