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Episode 36: Failure is an Option!

The Theory of Anything

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A Did Einstein General Relativity Win a Nobel Prize?

Einstein won a nobell prize for the photo electric effect, not for general relativity. The reason why is because his ideas were considered controversial,. They were considered maybe wrong. Yet if your idea that failure is good, maybe we should given einstein a nobal prize for a theory that we thought might be wrong. You know, that would maybe make some sense if it solved some really interesting problems. Ah, but that's just not the way the normal prizes ever actually get a probaly be used., he says.

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