>>13677569>So to answer you question: it depends on the discovery.In the context of this thread, most of what Einstein is credited with was evolutionary. While some of it is hailed as revolutionary, I think most of it was evolutionary but he advanced the timeline on several things enough for it to appear revolutionary. On other things, they were pretty much being discovered by others around the same time but his gravity (kek) pulled attention to him and away from others engaging in similar work.
Timing is important though because WWII happened during his lifetime and even if his foundational work only advanced the field by a decade, downstream it might be the case that the atomic bomb doesn't get invented when it did. That not only would have changed the war in the Pacific a great deal, it would have impacted the course of the Cold War that followed.
