>>10826100>Maxwell's Equations and GR are maybe on-par, though GR does require a bit more of a conceptual leap in my experienceEinstein had the benefit of a thriving mathematical community that had developed ideas that weren't as well-understood as in Maxwell's day, though.
>Maxwell's list of accomplishments have way fewer "highlights" than Einstein didCompletely disagree, I think that there's a lot of Maxwell's work that goes overlooked, for instance Maxwell made essential contributions to statistics and thermodynamics, as well as developing control theory, there's a little exchanged with underappreciated American genius Josiah Gibbs there.
>Einstein said "fuck you" to the ether and galilean spacetime that dominated physics for hundreds of yearsBut most importantly of all, he didn't say "fuck you" to Maxwell, he took Maxwell seriously and really extended what he saw as the important insights of his equations to their organic conclusions.
>einstein was a fucking beast way beyond maxwellIt's fun to talk in those terms, but no, and this is why I brought in their academics. Because we can actually compare them directly to their peers based on an objective criteria. Maxwell was objectively at the peak of his peer-group at an elite level of performance, Einstein was strong, but not that strong. You could argue that Einstein was strongly visual and that his true strengths didn't show up then, though.
