Human beings can achieve leaps in science and technology in just a few hundred years, and we should be most grateful to those great genius scientists. Scientists are indispensable on the road to science and technology, but the number of scientists cannot lead to a qualitative leap in science and technology in human civilization. It is often the genius scientists who can truly make a qualitative leap in human technology.
It has not been long for humans to enter the era of science and technology, only about 300 years. In a short period of hundreds of years, there are countless scientists working hard for the development of mankind, but the emergence of great genius scientists is very rare. It can be said that a few great scientists only appear every hundred years or so. So who is the number one great scientist in the history of human science for hundreds of years?
Speaking of great scientists, many people think of Newton, Einstein, Edison, Tesla, etc. Among these great scientists, who has contributed the most to mankind, and who can be regarded as the first of these great scientists? The United Kingdom once voted for a related great scientist, and finally got a ranking through people’s votes, and the first place was Einstein, whom we are all familiar with.
Speaking of Einstein, I believe that as long as it is a friend who is interested in science, no one does not know him. Einstein was a great scientist 100 years ago. There are two great things about him. One is that he put forward the theory of relativity that has a profound impact on mankind, and the other is the famous mass-energy equation.
The theory of relativity reveals to us the direction of space-time exploration. With the guidance of the theory of relativity, we can continue to explore the mysteries of the universe, and whether human beings can become a powerful interstellar civilization in the future may depend to a large extent on the theoretical guidance of the theory of relativity. Without the guidance of the theory of relativity, mankind may not have the current development speed of space exploration.
The mass-energy equation reveals to us the relationship between matter and energy. Our world is a material world, and the material world is transformed from energy. Through the theoretical guidance of this mass-energy equation, we can continue to uncover the essence of matter, the nature of the world, and finally reveal the mystery of life and the mystery of the universe. This shows how great Einstein is.
Every great scientist likes to predict some future things. Einstein is naturally unavoidable. He has made many predictions directly or indirectly during his life. It’s just that Einstein’s predictions are very different from those of other scientists. Many of the predictions of other scientists will not be realized in the future, and they are often the predictions of some Pegasus stars.
Einstein’s predictions are based on his huge amount of knowledge and rigorous scientific analysis. Therefore, Einstein’s predictions are very accurate. At least so far, many of his predictions have been confirmed, such as black holes and gravitational waves. It is precisely because of the high accuracy of his predictions made more than 100 years ago that in the scientific community, Einstein’s unfulfilled predictions have received more attention.
Einstein has seven more famous prophecies. Of these seven prophecies, four have been confirmed, and three have not been fulfilled. The four major predictions that have been experimentally confirmed are: space-time curvature, cosmological constant, microgravity lens, and Bose-Einstein condensation. Among the three unproven prophecies, two make humans very worried, and the other one makes humans look forward to it very much. The following editor will take a look at these three unfulfilled prophecies with friends.
1. The earth may be destroyed in 2060. There are many doomsday prophecies, such as the Maya 2012 doomsday prophecy that my friends know, but this prophecy did not come true in the end. In folklore, there are many predictions about doomsday, and the famous modern physicist Hawking also predicted that the earth may usher in the doomsday in hundreds of years.
Einstein once wrote in his manuscript that in 2060, the earth may usher in a huge disaster. In this huge disaster, the earth’s ecology will collapse and the biological extinction will occur. Human civilization may end. So what kind of disaster is it?
Hawking’s doomsday prediction about the future of the earth mainly refers to the fact that human industrial activities will completely destroy the ecological environment of the earth in the future and cause the deterioration and collapse of the earth’s ecology, which will lead to the end of the earth. The major catastrophe predicted by Einstein in 2060 does not refer to the collapse of the ecological environment, but to the possible nuclear war.
I believe many friends know that the biggest contributor to the end of World War II is actually the atomic bomb. Without the explosion of the atomic bomb, the Second World War might not end sooner, and it might last for a while before it ends. The explosion of the atomic bomb also makes human beings feel deep fear. This devastating and terrifying weapon is like opening the forbidden zone of God, which may bring unknown risks to human civilization.
The successful development of the atomic bomb is inseparable from the theoretical guidance of Einstein’s mass-energy equation. Einstein knew the horror of nuclear bombs as well as the greedy nature of human beings. The entire history of human civilization has been around for tens of thousands of years. In the long history of civilization, wars of all sizes have occurred many times.
Therefore, the history of human civilization can also be called a history of war. For the sake of resources, for the land, and for other things, human beings can launch wars at any time. Although it is a peaceful age, the possibility of another world war due to resources and other reasons is very high in the future.
If before the emergence of nuclear weapons, the war of human civilization is at best destroying a little ecology, but after the birth of nuclear weapons, if there is another world war, then there is a high probability that it will eventually evolve into a nuclear war. We must know that with the current nuclear bomb reserves of the earth, although the earth cannot be blown up, it is still possible to completely destroy the ecology of the earth and turn the earth into a desolate and lifeless planet.
2. The disappearance of bees may make humans go extinct within four years. This prediction is also mentioned in a manuscript by Einstein. Some people may say that the disappearance of small bees will cause the overlord of the earth to become extinct. disappear? This is too high to look at the bees. Is the little bee really that simple? of course not.
We all know that the earth’s ecological chain is one after another, and any break in any chain may bring a devastating blow to the entire ecosystem. Although bees are small, they are a very important part of the entire ecological chain. Why do you say that? I believe many friends know that the growth and reproduction of plants cannot do without pollination.
Most plants cannot pollinate themselves. They need external help. There are two main types of external help. One is the ubiquitous wind, which is the force of nature. The other is to rely on hard-working bees. If there are no bees, more than 1,000 species of plants in nature will become extinct because there are no pollinators.
It is not to underestimate the extinction of more than 1,000 species of plants. Their extinction may cause the break of other ecological chains, leading to the collapse of the entire ecological chain. The earth is able to have an environment suitable for life today because there is a relatively complete and complete ecological chain. If this ecological chain collapses, the earth will also become a desolate planet like Mars.
3. The existence of wormholes. I believe that many friends know about black holes. It is also a kind of cosmic body predicted by Einstein based on the theory of relativity. The existence of black holes has been confirmed by scientists, and last year the first real photo of human black holes was released. In addition to black holes, Einstein also predicted a kind of hole, that is, a wormhole.
Wormhole is also called “Einstein-Rosen Bridge”. It was jointly researched and put forward by Einstein and mathematician Rosen, and it is also a kind of hole that may exist theoretically based on the theory of relativity. Black holes are the most terrifying and powerful celestial bodies in the universe. They are the destroyers of all matter and celestial bodies. If a black hole appears in any star system, it means that this star system is basically finished.
Wormholes are different. It is a kind of hole that humans are looking forward to. Wormholes are also called a space-time tunnel, through which you can quickly reach every corner of the universe. Einstein believed that there may be a thin tube of space-time that connects distant space-time in our universe, that is, a “wormhole”. In theory, we can carry out space transfer and time travel through wormholes.
If the wormhole in the theoretical conjecture really exists, it is of great significance for human civilization to explore the universe. We all know that according to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the fastest moving speed of a mass object can only be infinitely close to the speed of light, and even a photon without mass can only reach the speed of light. If this is the case, then there is no hope for mankind to explore the universe and travel throughout the universe.
Flying at the speed of light, it is impossible for us to even travel across the Milky Way, let alone travel across the universe and explore the mysteries of the universe. However, the proposal of the wormhole gave humans hope. If there is a wormhole in our solar system, then we don’t have to worry about the speed of the spacecraft not being fast enough to get out of the solar system. We can easily reach the depths of the distant universe through wormholes and explore more cosmic mysteries.
The above three Einstein prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled, we naturally do not want to realize the first two. But sometimes things are often not as we wish. If Einstein’s prediction is 100% successful, then we really need to think about the future of the earth and mankind. The only thing we have the ability to change all of this is technology. As long as we become an interstellar civilization and confirm the existence of wormholes earlier, then interstellar navigation and interstellar migration will no longer be a dream.
At that time, even if the earth ushered in a devastating disaster, human civilization could still live on planets in other galaxies without worrying about the end of human civilization. Technology can change the destiny of the earth, as well as the destiny of mankind. We just hope that the first two predictions can happen again after the third one is fulfilled.